Clipper's View Of The REAL Plan
Dear Leader Wins No Matter What

The debate raging over the "fiscal cliff"  has a simple outcome.  In my opinion, the following sequence will occur:

1. Obama will hang tough and insist on raising income tax RATES on the wealthy.  It is cast in his socialist DNA to go after (other) wealthy people.   He will not budge on this.
2. If the Republican house gives him this, he wins - no matter what spending reductions he is pressured to buy into.
3. However - he need not buy into any.  If he does not get the increase in rates on the wealthy, and we go off the fiscal cliff on January 1st, he wins.  He's got the tax rate increase on the wealthy he wanted, even though the middle class are hit as well.
4. In this scenario, after January first he puts forth a bill DECREASING the rates for the "middle class" back to what they were before the cliff.  It will easily pass both houses, because NO REPUBLICAN will vote AGAINST A TAX DECREASE, even if it applies only to the middle class.  Dear Leader wins again!

In either scenario the wealthy pay more taxes, total revenues will decline, more small businesses will layoff or close and Dear Leader wins several times over.   He rescues the middle class, he demonstrates how beholden the Republicans are to rich people.  The resulting amping up of class warfare supports his Cloward and Piven strategy.   How much better could it be?

[clipper]