For weeks now, Republicans have been intoning darkly about the possibility that Americans will see a historic tax increase if Congress (read: Democrats) and the White House don’t act. At the same time, they’ve come out strongly against just about all of the compromise proposals Democrats have put forward to prevent the Bush tax cuts on the middle class from expiring.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=117666