See the article below. Dan Bartlett, former communications director for the Bush administration, admitted that setting the "expiration" date for the Bush-era tax cuts at 10 years was a deliberate trap for the next administration. As I suspected, this date was selected so that the next administration would find the tax cuts (which went almost entirely to the wealthy) next to impossible to remove. Bartlett is crowing about how well the trap was set. Why do people vote for Republicans again?? What sleazebags!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-02/tax-cut-extension-the-gops-fiscal-time-bomb/
