By that argument, the bush tax cuts weren’t really tax cuts at all — after all, Bush Sr. raised taxes, and Clinton raised them even more, so it was just the cowardly guys who did nothing more than reverse the legal tax increases in place at the time.
Of course, if you really want to take that argument to it’s logical conclusion, there has never been a tax cut, since before the 16th amendment was passed, there was no income tax at all. Ever since then, it’s just been cowardly people pretending to “cut taxes” when they are really simply voting for slightly smaller “tax increases” over the previous rate of 0%.
Would you rather we keep these new taxes for a couple of years? How many years do we have to suffer before we get to count a tax cut as a tax cut?
Boy, you really don’t think much at all do you? Do you really think it’s honest legislating to have a vote at 2:00 in the morning, two hours after tax cuts expired, and return most of them to where they were just two hours before and call that cutting taxes?? Did a single person receive a paycheck in those to hours of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day that was affected by the increase/decrease?
It is a game to these people. It’s a sneaky way around honest legislation. They didn’t have the guts to vote to raise taxes if they thought it was such a great idea (which the Bush and Clinton congresses did!). No, they just conveniently had a vote after the last minute.
Why don’t you try actually thinking and recognizing what these insidious politicians do instead of spouting off like some emotional democrat.