Republicans voted for the largest tax increase in history!
I just got done watching Judd Gregg complaining about the Obama budget again. He claims that it has the largest tax increase in history. What Gregg doesn't tell you is that he has already voted for this tax increase and that it doesn't require any action from Congress or Obama to take effect.
When the republicans pushed Bush's tax cut through in 2001 (through budget reconcilliation process) they arranged for an expiration of these cuts in 2111. Why did they do this? Well simply they did this because they wanted to hide the devasting effect these tax cuts had on the long term budget outlook.
Quite simply the democrats need to stuff this simple fact back at the republicans every time they bring up this largest tax increase in history crap. Any republican who mentions this should be asked if they are referring to the tax increase that they voted for and passed without any help from the democrats at all