FISCAL ISSUES

Fiscal Issues

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Fiscal Issues

In Washington, no budget has passed Congress and been signed into law in over three years. The Constitution requires one to pass, but who are the Founding Fathers to question the wisdom of our leaders in Congress?

The constant fiscal impasse between the Republicans and the Democrats in D.C. flared again last summer over the debt limit issue. Another “Super Committee” had been appointed that was supposed to come up with a little over a billion dollars in budget reductions and/or tax increases. The committee failed, so an automatic sequester kicked in that will cut ...