that's part of the gug gimmickry used to play for this federal leviathan. your taxes go up in 2010 but nothing to show for it until 2014. that's why the democrats claim to have a budget-neutral bill that comes in at less than a trillion dollars. washington will be sitting on a pile of money four years in advance of full implementation of the bill. when you take a look at the true ten-year costs beginning in 2014, the price tag is an astounding $2.5 trillion, a figure, by the way, confirmed by the chairman of the finance committee. so, mr. president, because i approve of this budget gimmicks and the imposition of these taxes, i support the hutchison thune amendment, an amendment which that says new taxes will not be enacted until the rest of the bill is. and i urge my democratic colleagues not to op to voting on the pending amendment -- not to object to voting on the pending amendments and to take up additional amendments, such as the snowe amendment, which will come later, and the hutchison-thune amendment, which would at least address the problem they've d