Heres an article on MSN referring to the AMT before the credit even went into effect:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/...44.asp?Printer

Here's an article on Forbes from March of 2006:
http://www.forbes.com/manufacturing/...15beltway.html

Here's an article from USA Today from August, 2005
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/...1-breaks_x.htm

Here's a link to an article on evworld that references an article in the NY Post from Jan, 2006:
http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?page=news&newsid=10728

It was not something new.