[jere]

>Of course it's intentional. If they didn't intend for taxes to go up, they would not vote for legislation that is doing so.

Are we talking about the same thing? Because I thought we were discussing a law that would automatically expire without intervention.

If there was no legislation being voted on right now, it would still expire.

[smsm42]

"automatically" is bullshit - the Congress is (was) capable of stopping it at any moment if they only wanted to do so. Inaction is a decision as well as action, otherwise setting off a bomb would be an unintentional act - I just pressed a button and failed to cancel it until it exploded, but since it exploded "automatically" it is unintentional. Nobody in right mind would buy this, but you're buying the "automatically" thing for some reason.

It just makes it easier to fool people - they fooled you, for example - into thinking they had no choice because it's somehow "automatic". They had all choice in the world, and "automatic" means nothing but saying "this would happen unless we create a law to do otherwise" - which is true for 100% of laws created by Congress, they all happen unless Congress creates another law that says the contrary. They are all "automatic" and all intentional.