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RE :”Like it or not, Obama (with the help of many who disliked him but chose to stay home ) was re-elected President and openly campaigned to raise taxes on the rich.
The alternative was of course to vote NO on the McConnell-Biden deal which if it went down would have cause the Bush tax cuts to expire and RAISED EVERYONE’s TAXES (including those making much less than $200,000 ).”

A shame we have to keep stating the obvious.

The WH released a CBO score that claims that this bill HR 8 cut the deficit by $737B over 10 years even compared to the higher Clinton rates that went into effect Jan 1 after the extended Bush tax cut expiration, and it gave a detailed breakdown of the CBO estimates.

Have you seen anything posted here like that?

[sickoflibs]

Looking at the WHs CBO score #s closely they get the $737B surplus deficit reduction by comparing HR 8 with the 2012 tax levels not the Jan 1 2013 higher Clinton tax levels, so they claim it cut the deficit by not scoring HR 8 as a tax cut.

This is still interesting because those here cursing this bill here call it both a tax increase and claim it adds to the deficit at the same time.