Because it may help the government cut its entitlement spending, or at the very least think harder about trying to expand ways to entrap and enslave more people with money for nothing. I’m not saying it is a panacea for all this country’s ills, but it is a check on Obama’s spending.
Last year, Obama’s extra entitlement spending amounted to $1.2 Trillion Dollars spread over 80+ programs. This was in addition to Social Security and Medicare. Why would you be ‘for’ stopping the ‘cliff’?
The largest monetary department in the government is now HHS and second is Social Security. It won't be long before we spend more financing the debt than we do on defense.
I thought the “cliff” was the current tax rates that are expiring plus the spending cuts to medicare providers and defense. Everyone who currently pays income taxes will lose more from their paycheck - whether you’re lower, middle, or upper income earners. On top of that everyone’s payroll taxes will go up by 2 percent. Other “goodies” in going over the cliff entail AMT, I think, the estate tax limits, etc.
What entitlement spending is being cut besides Medicare?
Also democrats and the media are trying to do to the GOP what they did to Bush 1, made him agree to raise taxes by promising spending cuts that never came. Then the media depressed conservative voter turnout by blasting that bush raised taxes “read my lips”. this is the same play book, the media putting pressure on GOP as they did on Bush etc. The main goal is to get GOP to raise taxes, promise bs cuts that never come , and then get suppress conservative voter turnout in 2014 by blasting that GOP raised taxes, goal is to get the House in democrat hands again. I hope Republicans see it this time and don’t believe the media