Democrats Willing to Plunge the US into Recession to Get back At the Rich

This is just the kind of small-minded approach that will damage our economy.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Monday announced that Democrats are willing to allow a slew of tax cuts and spending provisions to expire if Republicans refuse to raise taxes on the wealthy, potentially inching the country off a "fiscal cliff."

"If we can't get a good deal, a balanced deal, that calls on the wealthy to pay their fair share, then I will absolutely continue this debate into 2013, rather than lock in a long-term deal this year that throws middle-class families under the bus," Murray, a budget committee member and former co-chair of the debt supercommittee, said at a Brookings Institution discussion of the "fiscal cliff."

In other words if they don't get their pound of flesh out of the wealthy they are going to make every American suffer. Of course the wealthy will not be impacted as much as the middle class because any downturn means huge layoffs just when the economy is trying to recover. What they need to do is comprehensive tax reform and then work on the "fiscal cliff" after that.