By the way...
Note the quiet little correction at the very bottom of the NYT article:
An article on April 1 about the debt-deal negotiations last summer misstated the effect on revenue if some tax cuts enacted under George W. Bush were allowed to persist. Those cuts, for taxpayers making $200,000 or less, would be more costly, not less, than the cuts for the most affluent taxpayers.
No shit. The revenue "costs" from the Bush rates for the middle class are six times those of the high-income group.