Dagger statement: Why weren't the "Bush Tax Cuts" made permanent to begin with?

[Soral]

Anyone who supports this stupid tax cuts needs to be able to answer that question, or they sound like super idiots.

Why weren't the "Bush Tax Cuts" made permanent to begin with?

I think the most obvious answer is that when they were enacted budgets were forecast into the future by the Bush Administration and GOP led Congress of 2000-2006, they were forecasting GREATER REVENUES coming in because they ASSUMED Bush Tax Cuts would EXPIRED after ten years with NO RENEWAL . . .

which now after 10 years we find was DELAYED “smoke and mirrors” and accounting gimmickry, because now the GOP wants to implement them permanently.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. The GOP couldn't break the dem filibuster so they passed it by reconciliation

Anything so passed automatically sunsets after 10 years.

Yes, that includes HCR as well

[Soral]

3. not questioning you, but people will question me.... can i get a source?

so I can use this in battle?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. Totally fair question deserving a polite answer...so here goes

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/mar/04/alan-grayson/bush-tax-cuts-were-passed-reconciliations-50-votes/

BTW - it's a shame you have to preface your request with a near apology. Everyone should feel free to ask for sources without worrying about having the person asked blow-up at them. I know that isn't how things are around here and that's a shame.

:hi:

[Soral]

7. Thx, much appreciated, that said..

My "home forum" may be getting shut down soon, and we will be searching for a new home.

DU is a definite no, as most users would be banned on site here, lol

[gratuitous]

4. But, but, but, reconciliation is e-e-e-e-e-evil!

It's such a dirty, underhanded tactic that anyone who uses it automatically goes straight to h-e-double toothpicks! At least, that was the Republican line to stop health care reform last year, and nobody anywhere could remember a time when the Republicans used reconciliation to ram something down the throats of the American people.

So that must not have happened.

[Vincardog]

8. Funny that I heard that HCR decreased the deficit

[dkf]

2. It was passed with less than 60 votes (couldn't leap the filibuster rules)

So it was done through reconciliation which can't increase the deficit longer than 10 years.

[Poboy]

5. A much simpler route: "Why, if they are so good, haven't the tax cuts worked yet?"

K.I.S.S.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. It wasn't

Deficit neutral. And they KNEW that.

[OHdem10]

10. They knew the economy was changing and therefore they did

not make them permanent.