Come on OPs, I know your not that blind...unless you have literally been living under a rock until today, you know exactly how this went down.
The US president, Barack Obama, will today sign into law measures approved by Congress extending tax cuts introduced by George Bush amid Democratic complaints that the breaks favour the rich.
Despite objections from many of Obama's fellow Democrats, the House of Representatives passed the $858bn (£548bn) package of renewed tax cuts last night.
The bottom 47% of the "taxpayers" pay nothing at all