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Plan C: A small-scale deal to avoid the fiscal cliff
The remarks by Conrad – who suggested Boehner and Obama “split the difference” on the income cutoff – were followed by similar ones from Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson.
The Georgia senator told ABC’s “This Week” he would support a bill that prevented tax increases only for the middle class, if that’s his last option.
“If we get down to the end of this year and the only choice we have is to save taxes going up on the middle class, then I would support that,” he said. “But I wish we would have a comprehensive bill that dealt with spending, dealt with entitlements and dealt with taxes altogether.”
Isakson said an agreement now on a more comprehensive package is “not realistic.”
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KICK THE CAN, that is what will happen? bho will have ‘I won’ and still blame r’s for not caving to his demands? I just love it when they say, we will cut spending after YOU GIVE me all I want?
SICK! And yes, I am mad!
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letget on December 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM
punt!
rob verdi on December 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM
I say punt in hopes of getting more control by the republicans in 14.
I say this because those of you who are in the LIB crowd, have no clue or care for what could/will happen. Not having problems taking down many others who do not deserve it. I for one do not, along with other tax payers. LIB could start a chain of events that we could only imagine. I do not even think that the LIB people would stand a chance. Talk is cheap, reality sucks.
watertown on December 24, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Pshaw. God speed the cliff!
Pork-Chop on December 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM
You know, the song “Self Bias Resistor” by Fear Factory is now running through my head. Pretty much that entire album as well.
BigGator5 on December 24, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Obama won’t agree to a Plan C (or a Plan D, Plan E, or Plan XXX). The only thing he will accept is full capitulation. I’m guessing the the GOP will hold out maybe another day or two, and then give in fully — full tax hikes, no cuts (in the 21st century, at least), and they will probably throw in a full gun ban just so President Choom won’t hate them.
RoadRunner on December 24, 2012 at 3:58 PM
We are $10T in the hole for the ten year horizon these calculations are based on. Its $800B in taxes and, what $1T in cuts? If raising taxes by $80B and reducing spending by $100B each year is be called a “fiscal cliff” we are seriously screwed.
p0s3r on December 24, 2012 at 4:03 PM
In a nutshell.
trigon on December 24, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Guys, if plan c is the best they can do, the us credit rating will be downgraded again. Book it
davemason2k on December 24, 2012 at 4:25 PM
That’s not a good bet.
BigGator5 on December 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM
OK … if we give him everything … that means it all falls down faster …
LIB
conservative tarheel on December 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM
How ’bout Plan C — “stop the madness” — DON’T raise the debt ceiling, cut MORE spending to balance the budget, get the government out of the fields it has destroyed through over-subsidizing: agriculture, education, healthcare….
cthulhu on December 24, 2012 at 5:58 PM