Senator Brown Votes for Fiscal Cliff Deal
In his final days in office, Senator Scott Brown threw his support behind a new deal of fiscal cliff plan.
Calling the deal on the fiscal cliff "not perfect," outgoing US Senator Scott Brown (R-Wrentham) endorsed the plan in his final days in office. He says it ‘‘protects 99 percent of Americans from a massive tax increase," according to an Associated Press report. Brown had supported a no-tax pledge. The deal raises taxes on individual incomes over $400,000 and over $450,00 for household incomes and a portion of estates more than $5 million. The comprise allows Congress to have more time to work on government spending.
DGM
10:17 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Fairer and more balanced? That is a good thing? When you take from the rich so the poor can just take, take, take you create a society where achieving is not a goal. Why would anyone want to do anything to make alot of money if they know it will just be taken away? This has happened Before David. Go ask anyone from Austria in the 30's. That was a script we don't want to see repeated but yeah, … more ›