The 11th hour fiscal cliff deal to avert most of the scheduled tax increases was better than nothing, but it didn’t include a provision to raise the debt ceiling and the scheduled spending cuts have only been delayed for two months. As a result, we are about to be plunged almost immediately into another potentially damaging budget spat.
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