The question is whether you're going to get a clean read of the deficit out there anyway. They're going to create an artificial picture.

They've been so unabashed about making them permanent. Now that it's a visible piece of their budget, it makes it more front-and-center.

We'll try our case in court.

The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting programs.

The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting programs,

The households that will benefit from these two tax cuts are quite well off, and furthermore they've already benefited handsomely from the other tax cuts that have been enacted [since 2001].