Washington Post Gets Lost in Really Big Budget Numbers

The Washington Post ran a classic "really big numbers" piece on how much Democratic presidential candidates want to spend on the various initiatives they are proposing. These stories are known as "really big numbers" pieces because they provide basically zero context as they throw really big numbers at readers that they know almost none of them would understand.

The piece starts off by telling us that Bernie Sanders wants to spend $50 trillion over the next decade. It tells us that Warren...