Thursday, December 13, 2012
A blog post by Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz and Rev. Larry Snyder of Catholic Charities USA.
The most intense debate in Washington today revolves, not surprisingly, around higher taxes. Both parties seek to evade the impending "fiscal cliff" that would result in January from the scheduled expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and the last-resort automatic spending cuts agreed to as part of the budget-balancing effort last year. Both have now agreed that new revenues will be a part of the solution...