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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. This product of the debt limit battle of 2011 set up a bipartisan "super committee" of legislators charged with coming up with a deal to the reduce the deficit, with $100 billion or so in Gramm-Rudman-style sequestration to follow in 2013 if the super committee failed (which it of course did).