I don’t agree with your opinion, but I do respect it.
When and how much taxes go up are subject to some final deal. If we “go over the cliff”, that can and probably will be fixed later. Neither side can let the sequestration stand, for different reasons and despite the partying of the far left.
You’re carrying on like this is an either/or proposition. It’s not. At the end of the day, taxes will likely go up for job creators (stupid backwards concession, but that’s your GOP-e) and the Bush tax cuts will hold steady for everyone else. The real deal is what concessions can be had on spending.
The sky is not falling. Some deal will be reached. Conservatives showing a backbone is always a good thing.
I recall a very similar suicidal stand on the FICA tax cuts exactly a year ago and in the end they had so many of their own district voters calling them and screaming at them that they begged Bohner for a cave vote, which they passed quietly and out of view of cameras..
That ill thought out fight accomplished nothing except maybe helping Obama picked up seats in both houses.
Its lose-lose.
RE :”When and how much taxes go up are subject to some final deal. If we “go over the cliff”, that can and probably will be fixed later.”
FICA was finally caved on last February after that December stand against extending those tax cuts, so lets say this drags on into February with us all paying the higher tax rates, then Obama can propose almost anything and it will be a tax cut.
So I dont see how this leads to anything but a deal that is much worse than this B proposal.
If the House gets better tax cuts and spending cuts I will be the first to admit I was wrong, but I am guessing that those who claimed that killing B was killing the tax increase will never admit they were wrong.