Casey urges compromise to avoid fiscal cliff
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey announced Monday that the Joint Economic Committee will hold a hearing to discuss plans to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
Casey says Congress and the president need to reach a compromise by January to avoid across-the-board cuts, also known as sequestration.
“We understand that these across-the-board cuts don’t make sense,” said Casey, D-Pa. “There’s a lot of compromise that we think is available when it comes to tax rates.”
But he said he wants to make sure middle-class families will not face tax increases before he’s willing to discuss hiking rates for upper-income households.
Casey also said he wants to extend the payroll tax cut for another year to give Pennsylvanians “not just economic security but maybe even a couple more bucks in their pockets.”
The JEC will meet Dec. 6 in Washington, D.C.
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