[Kevin]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Not sure which articles you were reading, but everything that I read indicated that the original bill by the Dems did NOT include those tax cuts for the wealthy but that one failed because the Republicans insisted that they'd only vote for it if it included an extension of all the Bush tax cuts, not just the ones for the middle and lower class.

Additionally, the Republicans argument for rolling this back is that the plan itself would increase the deficit too much. This is the counter argument that rolling it back would increase it.

Lastly, the title of this thread is actually not very accurate because it wasn't the Dems who said this, it was the CBO:

So the Dems and Reps combined to select the least responsible option of all. Bravo to both of them.