Highlights Of The Government's "fiscal Cliff"

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Fri, 11/09/2012 - 12:44pm

The so-called "fiscal cliff" is an economy-rattling combination of expiring Bush- and Obama-era tax cuts and major across-the-board spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs.

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