deficits to continue breaking records

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Originally Posted by Danzig

here's the main issue...if the tax cuts are just allowed to expire, they don't just raise the tax rate on the rich. they raise them on everyone. so, when obama says just let them expire, which is his plan, he's advocating a huge tax increase on the poor and the middle class, not just the wealthy as he would have you believe. .

No, Obama's recommendation is to let the tax cuts on the wealthiest expire (the top 2-3%) - which is Bernanke & Geithners recommendation, too - and to extend the tax cuts for everyone else.

What Congress will end up doing we'll have to see.