OBAMA ADVISER SAYS PRESIDENT WILL NOT EXTEND BUSH TAX CUTS, EVEN TEMPORARILY: ’100% COMMITTED’

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14. The only solution is to let all the tax cuts expire: rich, middle class, whatever

The GOP Congress will never allow Obama to get just tax cuts for those under $250,000, and, quite frankly, in the financial straits we're in, we probably need to go back to the pre-2001 levels for everybody.

Unlike others in this thread, I saw Obama compromise away the tax cuts for very specific goals: extended unemployment for the needy and a vote to end DADT. He got both of those. It was a hard thing, but the notion that he's untrustworthy on this question is pure hokum from the uninformed or pure Obama hater rhetoric. But it looks like we're all going to have to eat it here: no tax cut extensions for anyone. That's a good thing, actually, in the long run: Obama may even leave office in January 2017 without a deficit. It's what we need. But there's no two ways about it. GOPers will not extend $250,000 and under, and Obama will not extend over $250,000, so all the tax cuts will be going away. Time for some people here to accept that.