Conservatives Should Kill This Deal

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Conservatives Should Kill This Deal

 

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 31st, 2012 at 01:45 PM

Conservatives within the Republican Conference should kill the compromise plan for the fiscal cliff.

For years, squishy folks on both sides and lots of think tankers have told us that we needed a “balanced” approach to solve our debt and deficit problems. A “balanced” approached included both tax increases and spending cuts. In other words, a “balanced” approach looked a lot like the so called fiscal cliff.

But today Congress is negotiating away the spending cuts component. Word coming from Capitol Hill is that there will be tax increases, but no spending cuts. They’ll get rid of sequestration.

Time and again Congress raises taxes now and says it will cut spending tomorrow.

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What Fiscal Cliff? VP Biden, Gov’t Workers Getting Raises

 

 

December 30, 2012 | Filed under Barack Obama,Big government,corruption,Culture Of Corruption,Economics,Liberals | Posted by Warner Todd Huston

 

Imagine you are working for a company that is going bankrupt, but everyone you work with and your bosses are getting pay raises. Seem absurd? Not if you work for the failing federal government because President Obama has happily decreed that Vice President Biden, members of Congress and most federal workers are getting raises for 2013.

 

As the U.S. government is losing its luster on the bond market and as the fiscal cliff looms, President Obama issued an executive order to give everyone raises.

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