This creates what many call a marriage penalty tax for dual earner couples. The plan would also increase the tax brackets for married couples to twice that for a single taxpayer in 2005. Unfortunately, tax cuts did not pass and I think it is due in large part to citizen apathy. Consider the last budget cycle. Congress decides that some of that surplus should be given back to the American people in terms of a tax cut.
Critics worry that giving a tax cut wouldn t be prudent if the economy falters.
So the Republican leadership puts in provisions that keep a tax cut from being given unless certain economic factors are achieved. Congress passes the tax cut, but waits to submit it to the president in August so that they can build support for it. Congress returns in September, submits the budget, and the president vetoes the budget. Those who do talk about it at all, say it wasn t worth the fight for a few dollars. After all, maybe the government needs the money more than I do anyway.