President Obama has now given three speeches promoting his American Jobs Act: Last Thursday before a joint session of Congress, Friday at the University of Richmond, and Monday in the White House Rose Garden. He is expected to give similar speeches Tuesday and Wednesday, for a total of five speeches in seven days. The Jobs Act, which is best described as Obama’s Stimulus II, will cost somewhere around $450 billion — more than half as big as Obama’s first failed stimulus. White House Budget Director Jack Lew is the man charged with identifying how Obama will pay for this new spending bill. The answer will not surprise you: It’s all about tax hikes.

Lew kicked off Monday’s White House presser by saying he wants to limit tax deductions for individuals making more than $200,000 a year (and families making more than $250,000 a year), raise taxes on capital gains, raise taxes on oil companies and slow down tax depreciation of corporate jets. If that sounds familiar, that’s because it is the exact same list of tax hikes that Obama pushed Congress to include in its debt limit deal this summer. At that time, Obama was pushing these tax hikes as part of the “shared sacrifice” needed to reduce the debt. Now he’s using these same provisions to pay for even higher deficit spending.