Biased headline: “Democrats Risk Fiscal Cliff by Targeting Top Earners’ Break” The article discusses President Obama’s threat to allow the automatic cuts to take place if the Republicans don’t agree to end the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich. But the title implies that the Democrats would be to blame if that happened.
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