@jonathanweisman They never really intended for the tax cuts to expire. Remarkable considering the reason they were temp in the first place.
"The next pres has to have a plan for this," Repub economist Holtz-Eakin said of fiscal reckoning way back in 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050302244.html …
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@_R_S_S_ Tax cuts in 2000s were only temporary because they could not get 60 votes in Senate, not because R's wanted to rethink them in time -
@jonathanweisman And they needed 60 votes for passage because they busted the budget, the truth of which came to pass.
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