Again.
This new CBO document. Table on page 7. Look at the categories of the tax extensions, and do the math.
Allowing the current rates to expire only on those making over $250,000 will increase revenues (assuming static calculation) by a grand total of $42 billion in 2013, and $38 billion in 2014.
This isn't about the deficit. This is about a psychotic hatred of private wealth in this country, and the Left's desperate need for a symbolic and useless kneecapping of them.
This is the samurai pissing on Blackthorne's head in "Shogun."