LOL! "Democrat Math".
The only other place I have seen it is unscrupulous "sales" where prices are increased just before the 'sale', then "slashed" to a smaller increase for the unwary deal hunter.
A mere 3% increase would be seen as a loss. Hard to keep up with under reported inflation that way.
The 'math' being used by the Beast in D.C. is a violation of economic laws. As with all immutable laws - the consequences for violating them is destructive and painful. Because Kick-The Can and keep spending well beyond this nation's ability to repay is going to exponentially crush everything and everyone who has not fleeced the public and made arrangements to sit out the conflagration on some remote island somewhere fully stocked up for the next century or so.
The ever-shrinking Producers are not going to sit idle when 80 - 90% of their income is taken from them just to keep existing spending levels where they are (with no baseline budgeting increases). The Beast can continue to print money out of thin air and tax the very air we breathe and it will not stop the consequences this nation is going to suffer from coming.
Except to say the longer they kick the can down the road, the more horrific and destructive the consequences will be.
Every civilization and Republic that came to ruin before us will not compare to what we are about to suffer. We can pretend that day will never come.
But immutable laws like gravity - cannot be broken. Thrust and lift can keep an aircraft afloat and thus defy the law of gravity for a time - but, when economic fuel to keep the engines thrusting runs out - it's plummet time as the law of gravity (and economics) asserts itself.
The ride down is horrifying.
The impact... final and total.