Do I Sell?

[Vanraw]

Or, my personal theory, it's all shenanigans because both sides want to hit the cliff because both sides want to look like heroes next year. They can't get kudos for saving us from the disaster of the cliff if nobody actually feels it, so both sides want to make sure we feel it.

Basically they're like firefighters who want to set the building on fire so that they can rescue us.

I think its shenanigans but for a slightly different reason. They dont want to be the hero's, but they want to avoid being called the bad guy. They both want to secretly let the cliff happen so that they dont have to cause the spending cuts or the tax increases. Its this "ambiguous cliff". Its sort of laughable that none of them are talking about that fact that they all agreed to this cliff. They act like its some sort of magic thing that just appeared. What a joke.

I would bet that if you could get a truth machine and stick it on most of congress and the president you find they want to cliff because then they have a rest button of the last 12 years. And all the action will be to give tax cuts and raise spending. Historically that is what motivates them. Both sides.