and what relevance does that have at all to the letting them expire now and effectively raising taxes while the economy is in the unstable state it is in?
I'm not sure how else to explain it to you
it had tepid support 10 years ago, at a time when we might have been able to afford the lost revenue
there is a popular compromise which I've mentioned a few times which would maintain status quo on taxes for 95% of the tax paying population