How many hundreds or thousands of your hard-earned "Bush economy" dollars will you lose because of the narrow interest and incompetent GOP Congress?  The most do-nothing and lowest-approved Congress in history was so eager to pander to their base and then hit the campaign trail that they neglected to extend vital tax deductions we've all grown accustomed to:

...What's lost to failed tax bills include a deduction for schoolteachers who pay for their own supplies, a deduction for college tuition and expenses for families that don't qualify for certain education credits, and a research-and-development tax credit popular with business.

About 19 million individual taxpayers could be affected by the nitwits' inaction.

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Deductions for state and local sales taxes. This affects residents of Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming who pay no personal state income tax (New Hampshire and Tennessee do tax dividend and interest income). This has been worth billions of dollars in deductions for residents of these states.

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What they did was to poison the tax code extensions with the inclusion of repeal of the "death tax" (please don't get me started).  Even though elimination of the Estate Tax is near the bottom of the list of taxes Americans believe should be targeted, the GOP evidently thought that a scorched earth jihad on your real, effective income was worth a shot at eliminating taxes for fewer than 2% at the top, who rake in $1.5 million or more in a year. 

Had enough yet of the way you're being "represented" (some would say screwed) by the GOP?

Do you think Bob Corker or Harold Ford Jr. will best represent your interests in Washington?