This Deal DOES NOT "Make The bush Tax Cuts Permanent."

Congress can raise taxes on anybody and everybody they want to any time in the future.

All this legislation does is extend the bush rates and eliminate the need for them to be reauthorized every year, with the threat of not reauthorizing them sending rates back to Clinton levels. The bush rates are now the baseline rates, just as the Clinton rates were the baseline from which the bush rates were enacted with a sunset clause.

Congress can always decide to raise tax rates, and there's nothing in this legislation that says the bush rates are set in stone and can't be changed in perpetuity.