Bush tax cuts have expired, no law has replaced them
Now that the Bush tax cuts have expired, the negotiating ground has radically shifted. Or should have.
Update: You can still try to screw this up in the House if youre so inclined. Phone numbers here.
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Snarky headline, but I thought you needed to hear that, since apparently no one else on the planet has noticed. No, a handshake between Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell is not a new law, despite what youre reading in the papers. And yes, the negotiating ground has changed, despite what youre reading in the papers.
So with the Bush tax cuts already expired and out of the way (Im going to bold that expression every time it appears, just so you know it actually happened), U.S. citizens are now subject to a tax increase. So starting from here now that the Bush tax cuts have already expired lets see how we can get a real middle class tax cut passed
you know, like we discussed a thousand times before, almost a thousand years ago. Heres my pretend-Obamas letter to the Republicans:
http://americablog.com/2013/01/breaking-bush-tax-cuts-have-expired-no-law-has-replaced-it.html