What about "decreasing taxation?"
Capital gains reductions, a temporary payroll tax holiday, and other proposals were raised by Republicans, and ignored.
Of course, such broad-based tax cuts, which allow people to spend and invest their own money as they see fit, don't give the government nearly the power that targeted, politically-connected spending sprees do.
Obama and the Democrats strode into office under the premise that businesses, the wealthy, and the private sector were The Enemy, and their policies show it.