increases are a job killer, particularly when you have over 9% unemployment. norm orn steen, that is disingenuous to say the least, that he realized they were a job killer, why he extended the bush era tax cuts. there s one reason only the president extended those bush era tax cuts and that s because he needed a deal to extend unemployment. this is the kind of misinformation campaign that is continuing on capitol hill. i sent out a tweet a couple of hours ago, i said, could anybody, anybody provide me with research, not opinion, but research that tax increases kill jobs. please send my way if you can. i haven t gotten anything that is of substance that s been sent my way. tell me if you know of research that indicates that tax increases kill jobs because there are no tax increases anywhere in this bill that covers the next ten years. no, of course, we re seeing a lot of disingenuousness across the board. a lot are the talking points, republicans repeating all the time. we