[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by David Newman

The tax cuts preceeded the war.

If the tax cuts had not been extended, my family, with a household income not approaching 6 figures would be paying 1500.00 more per year in taxes. That may be a couple of packs of smokes for some, but it's a very significant number for my family.

Granted, the democratic party plan would have saved an additional 100.00, but the Bush tax cuts were important at the time and a solid financial/economic move to help us out of recession. I won't argue that there weren't better options for tax legislation, but it kept a significant amount of money in the pockets of the middle class, especially for married couples children.

Of course, the 15% capital gains tax is available to all of us, just not something that most of us can take advantage of as easily as those with too much money.

The list of things I didn't like about Bush could go for many posts, but the tax cuts wouldn't be on my list.

War preparation began on Sept 12, 2001.The tax cuts were before that?