Update – NO DEAL !!
Breaking: CNBC's Harwood: No Vote in the House Tonight — U.S. Will Go Over the Fiscal Cliff
— Ryan Ruggiero (@RyanRuggiero) December 31, 2012
Operating in “crisis” mode is the preferred comfort zone of the progressives (fabian socialists). It is where they can do the most damage – The Place of New Normal and Fundamental Change……
FLASH: Majority of Senate Republicans expected to support tentative "fiscal cliff" deal – senior Republican aide http://t.co/h6GshzmD
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 31, 2012
Reuters: Emerging “fiscal cliff” deal would raise tax rates for individuals with income above $400,000 a year and households above $450,000 a year, according to source familiar with matter. Deal would include permanent alternative minimum tax fix, extend unemployment benefits for a year, source says.
But, of course, no spending restrictions to impede their “fundamental changes”…..
Senior Republican aide: Tentative "fiscal cliff" deal contains no new spending cuts http://t.co/lXrhKwxY
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) December 31, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — The contours of a deal to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’ emerged Monday, with Democrats and Republicans agreeing to raise tax rates on couples making over $450,000 a year, increase the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year, officials familiar with the negotiations said.
But with a midnight deadline rapidly approaching, both sides were at an impasse over how to handle automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect on Jan. 1. Democrats want to put off the cuts for one year and offset the so-called sequester with unspecified revenue.
The deal in the works would return tax rates on families making over $450,000 to 39.6 percent, the same level as under former President Bill Clinton. The agreement would also raise tax on estates worth more than $5 million from 35 percent to 40 percent. Unemployment benefits would be extended for one year.
A Republican official familiar with the plans confirmed the details described to The Associated Press. (more)