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The Republican position during the Fiscal Cliff problem at the end of 2012, is simply in this statement, "Republicans familiar with a new White House offer on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff say it looks almost exactly like President Barack Obama's budget proposal last February." This quote means that they are against the Democratic position and hope to stop "giving away money" and adding to the fiscal problem, unlike the Democrats. Democrats also support new budget cuts to try and eliminate a vast majority of the fiscal cliff problem, if Obama gets elected. The senate also made a deal to try and stop the fiscal cliff which included an increase in the payroll tax by two percentage points to 6.2% for income up to $113,700, and a reversal of the Bush tax cuts for individuals making more than $400,000 and couples making over $450,000 (which entails the top rate reverting from 35% to 39.5%). Most importantly it gave regular people popular tax breaks.

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 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/29/fiscal-cliff-2012_n_2214264.html
  http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/01/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html http://bonds.about.com/od/Issues-in-the-News/a/What-Is-The-Fiscal-Cliff.htm