10 Ways to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff

motherjones.com — Although you might never know it from listening to the pundits, America isn't broke. We have plenty of money to pay for government programs—we've just gradually lost our ability to collect it. Here are 10 ways, most of them long favored by liberal economists, that politicians could avoid the fiscal cliff's $1.2 trillion in trigger cuts and start plugging the long-term deficit to boot.

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