[tflabo]

Scroogie on the GOP when they had the majority for not having the cajones to make these tax cuts and incentives permanent and not with some game playing deadline gimmick attached to these monstrosities. Time for the common sense folks to occupy DC and take it back from the tyrants.

[WHBates]

Well that is not what the AMT is all about. It was to make sure that the very wealthy (at least at the time, according to the Dems) would at least pay some taxes, but it was never indexed for inflation so now it will hit lots of people. I believe that it was passed during the eighties (a compromise)with a Dem Congress.

You know, the republicans never really had any kind of a majority (with a Republican President anyway) that would allow them to pass an agenda that you would seem suggest.