Bush Tax Cuts End after 2012 Elections.....

[newmexicodem]

Don't the Bush Tax Cuts automatically expire after the 2012 Elections anyway. I am sure Obama will get his revenge for the stress the GOP has created this past week.

I think we will get our revenues at that time.....and it will be easy....as nobody will be able to filibusterer or cry like the Tea Party fringe.

[xchrom]

1. They would, yes.

The & moderate dems will have something to say about it then.

[Nimrod1]

2. So do unemployment benefits

Both are tied to each other and they will both probably be extended.

[gkhouston]

3. They were supposed to end after the 2010 elections.

You believe that things will be different in 2012 because... ?

[bigwillq]

4. ....

:thumbsup:

[newmexicodem]

5. obama has nothing to lose post-2012

After 2012....Obama won't have to worry about being politically correct. The re-election would be over and Obama would be a lame duck since he can't run for a 3rd term anyway....thus being able to do whatever he wants and have nothing to lose afterwards.

Obama could not let the tax cuts expire after 2010 because the Tea Party would have roasted him and prevented him from running for re-election.

[doc03]

9. Didn't know the 2012 election was over? Obama has to win first

unless things change drastically in the next year I think that is a long shot.

[gkhouston]

10. So in 2010, he went along with something that could predictably

stress a struggling economy... for the sake of being re-elected two years later. Damn, that's some inspiring statesmanship. :sarcasm:

[loyalsister]

11. Assuming all goes as planned

There will be 4 years that will prove us right on taxes, right on health care. Things will have gotten better over the the 8 D years as opposed to ending in the toilet after 8 R years.

[OhioChick]

7. +1000 n/t

[mvd]

6. Nope. Have no faith Obama will stand for anything in 2012

Call it radical, but I call it common sense. I'm standing firm in my progresive beliefs and won't back down.

[Motown_Johnny]

8. They will be a major issue all the way through the 2012 elections

both sides want to run on/against them