I just read the article. Goldman Sachs believes the democrats will open the flood gates of stimulus money sufficient to overcome the negative effects of tax increases, and that will make everything better. In order for this to work in getting net economic gain, your income (personal) or sales revenues and profitability (business) would have to be increase sufficiently to make up for the increased tax payments. Taxation is just overhead in terms of accounting. That would be one hell of a stimulus package. Kind of like those done by Japan starting in the 90's. Eventually that national debt will catch up. However, the Federal government owns something like $40-60 Trillion in assets, that they can auction off starting around 2030 in order to control the rise of that debt.