{"id":16752,"date":"2012-12-22T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16752"},"modified":"2012-12-22T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:36:37","slug":"silver-linings-to-fiscal-cliff-diving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16752\/silver-linings-to-fiscal-cliff-diving\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Linings to Fiscal Cliff-Diving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/aroy\/2012\/12\/20\/on-the-fiscal-cliff-republican-rebels-are-right-no-deal-is-better-than-a-bad-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avik Roy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;despite all of the dramatic hyperbole about the \u201cfiscal cliff,\u201d it\u2019s important to remember that going over the fiscal cliff will reduce the budget deficit by $503 billion in 2013, and $682 billion in 2014, relative to the \u201csolutions\u201d being bandied about on Capitol Hill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, since President Barack Obama and his fellow liberals in Congress refuse to link tax increases with entitlement reform, perhaps it&#8217;s better to go over the fiscal cliff than accede to some tax increases and no reforms.\u00a0 At least then Obama &amp; Co. would own the tax-and-spending system their intransigence created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avik Roy: &#8230;despite all of the dramatic hyperbole about the \u201cfiscal cliff,\u201d it\u2019s important to remember that going over the fiscal cliff will reduce the budget deficit by $503 billion in 2013, and $682 billion in 2014, relative to the \u201csolutions\u201d being bandied about on Capitol Hill. Moreover, since President Barack Obama and his fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3507,143,95,3625,1447,61,71],"class_list":["post-16752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-avik-roy","tag-barack-obama","tag-entitlements","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-reform","tag-spending","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16757,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752\/revisions\/16757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}