The White House's case for the tax-cut deal in one graph

Posted at 11:24 AM ET, 12/10/2010

By Ezra Klein

They're circulating this around the Hill:

It's also worth noting that those numbers could end up looking a lot better -- say, if the payroll-tax cut gets extended next year, which many think likely – or, if Democrats let their big tax cut expire in 2011 and then cave in to Republican demands in 2012, a lot worse.