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FISCAL CLIFF'S NOTES
FISCAL CLIFF'S NOTES
SUMMARY: “Fiscal cliff” was popularized by Ben Bernanke to describe what will happen at the beginning of 2013 if certain laws dealing with taxation and spending cuts aren't changed before then.
MAIN CHARACTERS: Ben Bernanke, President Obama, John Boehner.
THEME: Democrats win election, based partly on plan to make rich people pay their fair share of taxes. Republican Party doesn't care, wants to stick to game plan of representing 1% and punking 50%.
COMMENTARY: If you compromise with the dumba$$ ideas of the Republican Party, you will get half-a$$ed results.
NOTE: This post is not intended as a substitute for reading the entire Wikipedia article.
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