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CEOs warn Obama, Congress
to avoid ‘fiscal cliff’

Washington Post, by Zachary A. Goldfarb

Original Article

Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/18/2012 10:48:49 PM

The largest U.S. financial firms warned Thursday of dire consequences if Washington fails to head off year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, saying they could jolt the economy into recession and prompt a new and dangerous downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. These projections come as U.S. business leaders have been escalating their lobbying on behalf of a bipartisan deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” pressing their case in a series of meetings with key members of Congress. On Thursday, 15 of the nation’s largest financial companies warned President Obama and Congress in a letter that interest rates could spike

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: janylou, 10/18/2012 11:54:45 PM     (No. 8944518)

So are they saying they are fine with paying higher taxes?


Reply 2 - Posted by: country boy, 10/19/2012 3:20:27 AM     (No. 8944745)

These guys are mostly worried about the price of their stocks, which will go down as we go over the fiscal cliff.

The alternative to going over the fiscal cliff is doing it obama's way, which is not any better.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: bighambone, 10/19/2012 3:25:10 AM     (No. 8944747)

If Obama is re-elected chances are that he will push the nation over the fiscal cliff in an effort to get the Republicans to abandon their political principles and to go along to get along with him and his higher tax policies. Since there are not enough rich people to tax to run the country, Obama once re-elected will try to tax the middle class and will spend whatever revenue he raises without lowering the deficit. Obama can't come out and say that before the election, or he would have little chance of being re-elected.

If Romney is elected he will work with the Congress to extend all the coming tax increases for a year, while he works with Congress to pass his tax reform plan into law. Romney has promised not to raise up middle class taxes.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Kurto, 10/19/2012 3:50:05 AM     (No. 8944765)

It must not sound like advice. King cannot take advice...

(The King and I)


Reply 5 - Posted by: Spidey, 10/19/2012 3:51:57 AM     (No. 8944766)

Obama would rather go on the "pimp with a limp" show than deal with a crisis.
Everything is going to beheld hostage so Obama can get his taxes on the rich through. As soon as it would be signed,he would exempt all his donors from the higher taxes,making greedy republicans pay the whole tab.

Obama would also make Harry Belefonte capitalism czar.



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Hi. As you’ve probably noticed, I’m not the President. I’m just a citizen. And as a citizen, I’m here at the White House today because I want to make a difference and I hope you will join me. My name is Francine Wheeler. My husband David is with me. We live in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. David and I have two sons. Our older son Nate, soon to be 10 years old, is a fourth grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Our younger son, Ben, age six, was murdered in his first-grade classroom on December 14th.

   

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