Fiscal Cliff

[JJSCHMITTY2000]

I was wondering about the fabled "fiscal cliff", and what your personal take on it was. I don't want any flame wars, and if you can, assume more of a centrist take on the issue, and if you don't want to do that, say your political allegiance before posting so we can see where you are coming from and properly interpret your post.

 

[Danoff]

Belongs in the opinions forum.

 

[sumbrownkid]

Just another round of needless power play between both parties while the car they are in is steering towards that oncoming semi called deeper recession.

If they honestly cared about the future of this nation, then the bickering has to stop and rational has to be utilitzed again. Too often do policies come to be not because of actual proactive legislation, but through political dealings done in backroom.

 

[niky]

Belongs in the opinions forum.

As proposed, so moved.

 

[Johnnypenso]

I was wondering about the fabled "fiscal cliff", and what your personal take on it was. I don't want any flame wars, and if you can, assume more of a centrist take on the issue, and if you don't want to do that, say your political allegiance before posting so we can see where you are coming from and properly interpret your post.

You want commentary on an issue and you pre-define what position you want everyone can take? Or define our political allegiance beforehand? Here's a novel idea. How about everyone states their opinion, then take it on it's face value instead of having to qualify someone's opinion based on their politcal beliefs?

 

[Grayfox]

 

[Dotini]

Like many here at GTP, I'm friendly to libertarian ideas. Accordingly, I'm no fan of either current party, nor of the President and majority leader. Vision and leadership to make the choices necessary to bring debt and deficit under control have been, and still are, obviously lacking. Therefore, despite the immediate howls of pain, going over the "fiscal cliff" hand-in-hand seems to be the only way forward.

Raising taxes on everybody and across-the-board spending cuts may be akin to the phrase from the Albigensian Crusade, "Kill them all and let God sort them out". But this Draconian measure may be truly required, since our massively corrupt and self-serving politicians lack what it takes to act in any more responsible fashion.

As GW Bush once said famously about the Iraqi suicide bombers, "Bring 'em on!"

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

 

[David]

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[Danoff]

The problem with this "cliff" scenario is that the spending cuts aren't going to be deep enough to matter.

True... but it represents the deepest cuts on the table. The reason politicians are so concerned about the cliff is because they think those cuts are too deep! Time to jump.