WASHINGTON — For all the gloom and doom swirling in Washington about a looming fiscal cliff of expiring tax cuts and slashes in government spending, there’s a faint chorus that asserts: Let it happen.
Representative Peter Welch of Vermont, for one, says it might be just what the country needs to find a way out of a quandary of debt, taxes, and lack of political resolve.
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Hey Norquist - how many million does any one person need? What have you done for anyone but yourself and your friends? Work in a homeless veterans shelter for one flipping day and try to tell me that the poor and homeless are poor and homeless because they are lazy!
Representative Welch is completely wrong to advocate for this. A fiscal "reset" as it is sometimes referred to is the wrong tool at the wrong time. Sadly, as much as I can't stand John Beohner's tactics, he may have the better of the two solutions. Of course, I think they should fine or fire 80% of the entire Congress but that's just never going to happen.
I don't think anyone should welcome going over a "cliff." (Even as a metaphor, the thought of going over a "cliff" is clearly sobering.) That said, Washington has gone the better part of a year deliberately sidestepping this issue. Now there is apparently a call on Boehner's part to punt again. It may be necessary -- however painful -- for the country to come to the abyss in order to break gridlock. THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE WILLINGNESS ON THE PART OF THE IDEOLOGUES TO COMPROMISE -- PERIOD!