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Bloomberg reports the latest on the middle class tax cuts:
Congressional Democrats and a top White House official said Congress will extend soon-to-expire tax cuts for low- and middle-income Americans after the Nov. 2 election. Republicans said the delay and the threat of higher taxes for top earners will hurt the economy.
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin said Democrats will come together to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the first $250,000 of a married couple’s income, including lawmakers who also want to keep the lower rates for high-earning Americans.
We’ll see. I still don’t see how this would be anything other than an election-year plus if they did it now, but I guess I’m not as smart as the Blue Dogs.
