KPIX CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley December 22, 2012
This is the president s own plan b, a scaledback bill that seeks to protect tax rates for households earning less than 250,000 and extend jobless benefits for two million americans out of work for six months or more. Its a shadow of the big deal contemplated only days ago. In ten days we face a deadline. In ten days, under current law, tax rates are scheduled to rise on most americans. Even though democrats and republicans are arguing about whether those rates should go up for the wealthiest individuals, all of us every single one of us agrees that tax rates shouldnt go up for the other 98 of ...