If you think going over the fiscal cliff would increase the national deficit, you’re wrong - Herkimer, NY - The Times

If you think going over the fiscal cliff would increase the national deficit, you’re wrong

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By Pat Cunningham

One of the problems about the big political fight over the so-called fiscal cliff is that many, if not most, people don’t know what the cliff really means.

Consider, for example, a new poll SHOWING that a plurality of Americans wrongly believe that going over the cliff would result in a spike in the national deficit:

[F]or all the hype about the issue, very few people really understand what The Fiscal Cliff actually is.

To gauge the public level of understanding, we had SurveyMonkey run a poll on the issue…

We wanted to gauge if people understood the result of ...

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