[napscoordinator]

Whose bright idea was it to put a sunset provision on the tax cuts to begin with. That is the biggest idiot of all.

[Son House]

The Bush tax cuts have to sunset because the Congressional Budget Office would not admit that they would save money.

...Unless a bill can be shown to save money, they have to sunset. The CBO would not show that tax cuts save money because template, the narrative is that tax cuts cost the government money.

This wouldn't be the same CBO that scored the Health sCare bill so it would not show a deficit, then, the Health sCare bill would pass, then, CONgress would let us see what's in the bill...

[mewzilla]

Whose bright idea was it to put a sunset provision on the tax cuts to begin with. That is the biggest idiot of all.

Er, IIRC, it was the Pubbies :)

They did it to get around pay-go and to get some 'Rats to sign on.

Shortsighted little buggers, weren't they?

[Alas Babylon!]

Read the article.

The Senate democrats at the time would not vote for the tax reduction. Don’t you remember Tom Daschle and his muffler? He stood in front of a auto muffler on the driveby nightly newscasts declaring that the money a “working class” family would save would be enough to buy them a new muffler, but not a new car. I believe Dick Gephart stood at his side, pouting.

As Rush said above, the CBO would NOT say the tax cuts would garner revenue increases, and therefore the best that Republicans could do at the time was pass the cuts as reconcilliation between the two houses, which REQUIRED they envoke the sunset clause. Nobody’s idea unless you consider Robert Byrd, (KKK-WV), who wrote the reconcilliation rules.