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alp227

(31,962 posts)
Sat Dec 22, 2012, 03:12 PM Dec 2012

Obama lands in Hawaii after urging Congress to 'cool off' on fiscal cliff

Source: guardian

President Barack Obama arrived in Hawaii on Saturday, having issued a demand that squabbling congressional leaders "cool off" over the holidays and adopt stopgap measures to avert the year-end fiscal cliff.

In comments that signalled that the White House is coming to the conclusion that an overarching grand compromise is slipping from its grasp, Obama issued a statement tempering ambitions for a comprehensive deal to avert punitive tax rises and swingeing spending cuts.

The president said he remained "ready and willing" to put his name to such an agreement. But he conceded that with just days left to head off the automatic roll-out of fiscal measures that could plunge the US back into recession, the pressing need was to just get something on the table to avoid the pain of tax increases hitting every American family in the new year.

"In 10 days, we face a deadline. In 10 days, under current law, tax rates are scheduled to rise on most Americans. And even though Democrats and Republicans are arguing about whether those rates should go up for the wealthiest individuals, all of us – every single one of us – agrees that tax rates shouldn't go up for the other 98% of Americans," Obama said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/22/obama-hawaii-christmas-fiscal-cliff

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Obama lands in Hawaii after urging Congress to 'cool off' on fiscal cliff (Original Post) alp227 Dec 2012 OP
Good! Everyone deserves to be home for Christmas! hedgehog Dec 2012 #1
98% of us can live with the lack of a tax deduction as long as we can refill our coffers with the 2% earcandle Dec 2012 #2

earcandle

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2. 98% of us can live with the lack of a tax deduction as long as we can refill our coffers with the 2%
Sat Dec 22, 2012, 03:38 PM
Dec 2012

rise in tax revenue which can fund our social programs again.

I think we should just take the cap off of FICA collection from all workers, not just the first 90K.
That will bring some sense into this conversation.
Why should those making more have no FICA?
Dumb.

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