WASHINGTON — Political leaders are beginning to review scenarios for surviving the fiscal cliff in the short term, as the likelihood builds that no budget deal will be reached over the next four days.
“I don’t know, time-wise, how it can happen now,’’ Senate majority leader Harry Reid, the Senate’s top Democrat, said Thursday of the elusive budget deal that could stop automatic tax hikes and spending cuts Jan. 1.
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What happened in Newtown was enough to shake anyone's confidence in government's ability to do much of anything to safeguard the lives and well-being of its citizens in the face of the NRA's intransigence. The fact that Democrats and Republicans in Washington are willing to throw the country's precarious economy back into recession simply reinforces that idea. Washington takes care of its own priorities, which have more to do with money and power than anything else, the rest of the country be damned!
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I`ve finally come to the conclusion that both sides want to go over the "bump". Republicans will get cover by not having to vote on a tax hike they know will happen, then in 2113 they will vote with dems for a TAX CUT for the bottom 98%. Boehner gets cover and he will be reelected Speaker. The democrats will get what they want, lower taxes for 98% and higher taxes for the top 2%. Both sides have known this all along.
"President Obama's Department of the Treasury"? Wow, the Globe does think the Democrats led by the anointed one, are the rightful owners of the US.