Explicitly raising taxes would be very unpopular, but there were plenty of things I listed that would get minimal pushback from the public at large. No one car

Explicitly raising taxes would be very unpopular, but there were plenty of things I listed that would get minimal pushback from the public at large. No one cares if UPS delivery trucks are electric. Very few people are policy wonks and will pay attention to changes in FHA bureaucracy. Voters have very limited bandwidth and attention. Most of what the federal government does, it does on its own initiative, with opposition from select special interests.