Reply #6: Let the middle class taxes go up?

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Is this with the Republican Congress? With that, the only way to keep the middle class tax cuts would be to give the rich theirs. I can't imagine the Republican House letting just the middle class keep the tax cuts, can you?

Sorry but letting the middle class tax cuts expire would be a terrible move. They will just blame Obama for raising their taxes. The rich would have their taxes back up, true, but they aren't as numerous, and they will buy tons of TV time and have tons of M$M airtime to just boil it down to "President Obama raised your taxes." And the Republicans have the gall to do this in spite of their going on about the deficit for two years. The voters are incapable or remembering that, and the Democrats don't get enough publicity for what they say in the media.

So I think we are trapped.