Big day in the news today. Looks like the fix is in to extend the Bush-era tax cuts at all income levels.
From the New York Times:
A day after the Senate rejected President Obama’s preferred tax plan, officials said the broad contours of a compromise were in focus.
Rather than extending the tax rates only on income described by Democrats as middle class — up to $250,000 a year for couples and $200,000 for individuals — the deal would also keep the rates for higher earners, probably for two years. In return, Republicans said they would probably agree to extend jobless aid for the long-term unemployed.
I can hear the Republicans going on and on about how bi-partisan they are because they agreed to a short-term extension rather than the permanent one they believe will save the Western world as we know it. And they will “probably” agree to an extension of unemployment benefits. Probably.
And here in California, a randomly chosen-three judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals meets on Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on gay marriage. The panel is considering an appeal of the August ruling overturning the 2008 ballot measure as a violation of civil rights.
Our side is being represented by the unlikely pairing of David Boies and Ted Olson, who represented opposite sides in the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore, which ended the recount of the 2000 Presidential election. Now I call THAT bi-partisanship.
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