Republicans stopped this by not single Republican Senator voting for this to come to the floor.
Republicans have to be applauded for this.
Have you all no idea what the media and democrats are doing?
Have you all no idea that a progressive income tax is one of the 10 goals of Marxism/communism?
And that is what democrats intended to do with this, raise taxes on those making $250,000 or more . that is a progressive tax ,that is marxism/socialism/communism.
Of course the fact that the tax bill did not pass is an excellent thing...merely saying that Obama can rely on the press to portray this as GOP mean-spiritedness in the hope that less engaged members of the electorate will rally around him. Fortunately, the broader public is more engaged than ever before and the class warfare thing, like the charge of racism, is beginning to lose its punch.