Tuesday, December 04, 2012

The "Fiscal Cliff"

Daniel Greenfield writes at Sultan Knish about the "fiscal cliff."

The crisis is being exploited with nonsense about fixing the giant hole in the economy created by Obama, by raising taxes on the rich. Even though the tax hikes wouldn't even begin to cover a month of spending.

The fiscal cliff is a strategic crisis weapon, but it's the wrong crisis for Republicans to focus on. The crisis here is spending, not the fiscal cliff. The crisis is the viability of Social Security. The crisis is in the personal things that people care about. The crisis is not how to find ways to let politicians spend more money.

Read more here: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

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