Some of these reductions were implemented to fight what was seen four years ago as a temporary downturn. Although their supporters wanted to make them permanent, claiming that they were temporary allowed for the circumvention of procedural requirements in the legislative process that Democrats had created in a vain effort to guarantee fiscal sanity.
实行减税措施是为了抵御四年前暂时性的经济低迷。但支持者希望实现其永久化，称当时只是为了规避立法过程中民主党保证财政合理性的无效的程序性规定才将其确定为临时性措施。