Tax raise, tax cut....blah blah blah...at the end of the day it still means our taxes will go up (or back up). Still not a Republican/conservative view. One would think the Republicans are kind of shooting themselves in the foot on this one.
The tax was lowered and in the interim we've spent more and have an unmaintanable deficit. Congress was unable to come up with even moderate spending cuts in the recent supercommittee debacle, so we're gonna have to raise taxes/return to higher taxes. Actually we need to be doing both. That's called living in the real world, where TANSTAAFL.