‎"The biggest hit comes from the roll-back of the Bush-era tax rates. Families making between $50,000 and $75,000 would see taxes jump roughly $2,400, according to one non-partisan study. "
AWESOME, because I have the ability to live off of $92.00 less per paycheck! That will fix my teeth, Fran's cavities, and other assorted goodies of necessity. OH and great a 2% increase in SS tax withholding! There goes another $61.00, add to that the $50.00 per pay being withheld each pay to cover the taxes we DID not pay on unemployment in 2010 and now owe (because if we took the tax out of unemployment we would not have had enough left to EAT!and keep the lights on) .....
and now for 2013 we are DOWN $203.00 per pay check! That is $5, 228. SO if I get a job (PLEASE LET Me GET A JOB), then the first 2.6 months of work, roughly, are for making UP the DIFFERENCE in taxes and paying back taxes for the year!

Nice, 2013 should be a blast! Maybe my teeth will fall out and I will get thin from lack of food, inability to chew without teeth and walking everywhere I go since I have no car and if I did could not afford the gas! Happy New Year! I don't even understand the 'alternative min tax thing with average increases of $3700. but it is supposed to affect a new 37 million people, and we all know I can't win the lottery but I will surely be one of the newly affected middle class AMT sufferers.

At this point it is so stupid, we do not have the money to PAY DOWN THE DEBT. IT IS MATHEMATICALLY NOT POSSIBLE. If we stopped paying EVERYTHING except the government workers needed to operate the government and SS and Medicare, we would NOT break even; we would still be in the hole. SO who cares. SIGN a deal, yet another stupid deal, and spend some money we have not printed yet, beg China for more loans we will never pay back, tell the Fed to shove the interest on money we printed and gave to them to lend to us to charge us interest on to take a hike and FIX MY PAYCHECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!