Because to see what argument is correct one need not do much research. It is astounding that so many Americans seem to not mind taking money from their own pockets and giving it over to millionaires. They have been brainwashed into believing that these cuts do not cause deficits and create jobs. However, the facts just do not bear this out. Actually Republicans are arguing to add to the deficit by simply giving more money to the folks they have been giving it too for far too long now:

A Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would add more than $36 billion to the federal deficit next year -- and transfer the bulk of that cash into the pockets of the nation's millionaires, according to a congressional analysis released Wednesday.

Even more insulting to a thinking American is the argument they spew like gospel to justify this reverse Robin Hood mentality in stealing from the poor and giving to the rich:

Republicans accuse Democrats of plotting one of the biggest tax hikes in American history, arguing that raising taxes on wealthy households would punish the very people capable of creating jobs, spurring economic growth and reducing the 9.5 percent unemployment rate. About half of all small-business income is reported on the individual returns of people making over $250,000 a year, according to the taxation committee's data, though those taxpayers represent only about 3 percent of small businesses.

"We cannot forget that a lot of those people are small businesses," said Sage Eastman, a spokesman for Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.), the senior Republican on Ways and Means. "The American people don't want them paying higher taxes -- they want them hiring more people."

Which brings about the simple question to ask of Rep. Camp, the teabaggers or any of these other Republican idiots who continually spit this poison upon their fellow citizens. If these tax cuts are so wonderful and create so many jobs then where are they?? These cuts have been in place for a long time now so where are the jobs they created?? Hell, if this policy is so essential and the right thing to do then why has IT FAILED MISERABLY????

Even more perplexing than the fact that the American electorate voted the very party that crashed the economy back into power in the House BECAUSE they crashed the economy is this. The facts about the Bush Tax Cuts are written down in recent history in very simple terms. Just look at what they did for job growth back at a time when the economy was considered reasonably strong, 2005:

"President Bush's Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, far from delivering on the promises made to create 5.5 million new jobs, has carved out a new low in job recovery after a recession." said Scott Klinger, another co-author and director of UFE's tax policy group. "The president's tax-cutting policy is a failure in this regard, and we need to recognize it as such."

http://www.faireconomy.org/...

Yes, look at some of the other wonderful things that these tax cuts did back then:

The weakness in job creation during an economic recovery that we are currently experiencing is unprecedented since World War II.

The number of good quality jobs (defined as those paying at least $16 an hour, providing employer-paid health insurance, and providing a pension) has remained flat at 25% of all workers.

Black employment is at 89.6%, compared to 95.2% for whites.

Latino workers average more than $10,000 per year less in earnings than whites, and the gap is increasing.

Which led to this somber assessment of the affects on working America when they will not stand up for themselves and constantly allow the very folks who have stagnated their wages, crashed their economy, and outsourced their jobs to bend them over time and time again:

"No workers have really benefited from President Bush's tax policies, but blacks and Latinos have suffered disproportionately," said Gloribell Mota, bilingual education specialist at UFE.

"As the nation prepares for our annual feast of bounty and thanksgiving, many U.S. families will not be participating. This is because the multiple breadwinners each family needs these days don't all have jobs," said Anisha Desai, UFE's program director and a report co-author. "Of those that do, many are not making enough money to pay for turkey and trimmings for everybody in the family."

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. After this election if the American electorate, especially the working-class are going to stand by and allow this to happen then I am ashamed. Ashamed that the land of the free and the home of the brave has been replaced by a brainwashed populace that believes it is easier to get ahead by brownnosing than actually standing up for your freedoms and right to work hard and reap the rewards instead of giving them back for nothing. Hell, standing up for your own self-respect and priviledge to be more than a serf.

If our nation does not once again find the spirit that once made it the only country ever founded upon the LIBERAL ideals of the Enlightenment then we truly are seeing the death of the American experiment during our own lifetimes.