Reply #59: The difference in the 2 methods of doing away w/those particular tax cuts is about 1 yr.

[Honeycombe8]

I think our country has enough really big things to worry about than waiting a year for one of the campaign promises to be fulfilled. Most campaign promises are never fulfilled, so if Obama follows through at all, he'll be way ahead of the game, compared with most Presidents.

There is a new team of supposedly brainy economists on Obama's economic team. Things in our economy have definitely taken a turn for the worse lately. Seems to me that if the economic team recommends to Obama that he wait a year for those tax cuts to lapse, he should listen.

We want what's best for the country and our economy to be done. I don't know what's best. You don't know what's best. Even Obama's economic team doesn't know what's best. But they sure have a much better shot at being right on what needs to be done than what I or you think.

What's best for the country, given the current economic situation, is what should be done, IMO. I WANT a President that listens and changes plans, if conditions warrant the changes.

True, it's a bummer that the taxes may not be rescinded immediately. But what else about the economy has NOT been a bummer lately? These are not ordinary times.