Your taxes are not going down
Go for a year with no new tax laws, and see if you still think that is true.
Your tax rate is higher today. You can accept it, or fight it.
The question is, are you willing to pay those higher taxes for this year, in order to fight for a new tax bill that lowers the taxes back to the old Bush tax rates for the top income tax brackets.
You can pretend your taxes didn’t go up, so then you can pretend they didn’t go back down. But right now, your taxes are the same as they were on January 1, 2001.