Tierney: Cut Nukes, Not Social Security, to Avert 'Fiscal Cliff'
President, Congress have just a few days to avert automatic tax increases and spending cuts. A number of Massachusetts Congressman suggest cutting nuclear programs instead.
Starbucks baristas are writing "come together" on all cups in the Washington, DC, area to encourage Congress and the President to come together to fix the fiscal cliff issue. For more information about this initiative, go to www.patch.com/fixthedebt. Congress and President Obama are racing against the clock this week as they make one last attempt to hammer out a deal to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” the U.S. government is set to go over on New Year’s Day. Without a compromise deal to lower the deficit, the government will face a self-imposed deadline that triggers both spending cuts and higher taxes. Congress itself set the Jan. 1 deadline after failing to come to a budget compromise earlier this year. On Jan. 1, the George W. Bush-…
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Carl Reppucci
10:08 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
Look at the Federal Poverty Levels - that even a single person making $33000 is considered 300% above poverty level but take someone single out of college with $100000 in debt, give him/her a $60000 job and with loans, apt rent, car - they are now in poverty. Good luck! How much in taxes? If you don't control the towns and the state - remember they get federal money - your tax dollar - then cut … more ›