President's Labor Day Message: Increase Taxes, Increase Spending

This will not only create jobs immediately, it's also going to make our economy hum in the long-run...It's a plan that history tells us can and should attract bipartisan support. It's a plan that says even in the still-smoldering aftermath of the worst recession in our lifetimes, America can act to shape our own destiny, to move this country forward, to leave our children something better -- something that lasts.