Except for the small 2 percentage points in FICA lasting just one year, there are NO tax CUTS here. Without this move it would have been the largest tax increase.

What matters in the next two years is whether or not the GOP can do anything to curb spending, big time. If they have no stomach for it then they too shall suffer.

The facts are already in. They won't work.

It's also not the 2nd biggest tax break in history. Not even close. It's more like a continuation of the smallest top marginal tax break in history. Why is it the smallest? Because top marginal tax rates are already so incredibly low.

The indes that moved away were angry at more than just tax issues.

The health care act will be a biggie.  If premiums are going up, if policies are being changed,
if costs are rising and they can be reasonably related to Obama-care, people will be rather peeved.

The same will hold true on a lot of other issues.  If the regulatory things he tries to push through as a substitute of cap-and-trade increase energy costs, if there is another increase in gas costs and we haven't expanded interanl capacities and coal costs twice as much, he will bear the brunt of it.

In any event, even if the tax issue doesn't reduce unemployment, for many people there is one place where the buck stops, regardless of that one issue.

.....as he knew that raising any taxes during a recession would hurt him .

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it's like read my lips Bush. These thing are costly. How much, I don't know.

that I make less money than it costs to manufacture Donald Trump's hair, and he pays a lower tax rate than me.

but I don't think he wanted the compromise. He really needs to be able to say I promished this and I delivered. Exporation of those Taxes was one of the promises. He is running into the danger of looking like another stuffed shirt, bull shit politician where he use to be a bull shit stuffed shirt politician.

There is a distinction, however it is without merit.