Reply #74: I didn't say that you mentioned it

[Shiver]

I should have clarified, that in other posts on other threads on this matter, the prevailing attitude of some people seems to be a need for economic revenge. I was merely pointing out that there are political concerns that one must factor in as well as economic.

Most people are low-information voters; they don't do the research we do. They go by the ads on TV and the radio, the mailers that get sent to their homes. Many think the blatantly untrue emails have credibility. Repeat a lie often enough, and people will believe it - and going down to the pure semantics of it, it IS raising taxes. Raising them back to what they were before the cuts counts as raising them, and thus, the lie has more credibility due to the grain of truth.

I'm not saying it's a definite, just another factor to consider and weigh in with the others. The Repubs aren't gonna let the tax cuts be rolled back easily, and we should waste the political capital on something that will expire in a year anyway.