At midnight on December 31, 2012 a number of tax increases and spending cuts will go into effect in an effort to help balance the United States budget. Since we have been told countless times over the past couple of decades that our ever increasing National Debt is a BAD thing, the fiscal cliff sounds like a great idea. We’ll finally be doing something about that damned National Debt!!
So naturally, every politician that can get near a microphone has talked about how bad this will be.
Politicians only care about two things-1) keeping their job, and 2) making as much money as possible from any means possible. There is nothing in the Fiscal Cliff that bans a person from holding public office or cuts their salary to the Minimum Wage if they don’t get anything done. So they have no real reason to care about the fiscal cliff.
But again, would increasing taxes and cutting spending be such a bad thing? Wouldn’t we all be willing to add more to the pot if it would help? Can’t we cut back on spending now that we’ve rolled back a bit on the war fronts?
I think we just have too much information these days. The US Government is like the Earth in Men in Black, it’s always about to end and the only that keeps the average American going is that we know nothing about it.
