"permanent" tax cuts. "Permanent" sequester. How "permanent"?

[CousinIT]

IOW if Dems overtake congress, could they not do away with these "permanent" tax cuts and the "permanent" sequester, replacing these laws with new ones?

How "permanent" is this crap?

[Kilgore]

1. Only as permanent as the next election

[shraby]

2. The only things permanent are what is in the constitution and even some of those can and have

been changed.
Otherwise new laws create new realities and sometimes supplant older laws.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Dems take the house and senate they are history

[gratuitous]

4. Your question is one that needs some airing

By calling their latest scheme "permanent," Republicans are hoping to stampede public opinion like they often do. But as your question anticipates, there's nothing "permanent" in the tax code: everything can be changed. It's the tax code, not the Quran or the Bible.

[gordianot]

5. Permanent is a branding gimmick by the insecure.

They know this will be changed when the opportunity arises. Republicans are the radical opportunists.

[Demsrule86]

6. They can but need the presidency too unless they get a veto proof majority... but happen

that GOP types watching their colleagues go down in flames might help with the repeal...you never know.

[Nitram]

7. The permanent sequester is one reason Virrginia has turned semi-blue.

[WillowTree]

8. "Permanent", in this context, just means that the law does not include a sunset clause.