Our great leaders saved the nation from falling off the Fiscal Cliff by working a compromise in the eleventh hour. Cliff or no cliff, we all knew everybody would suffer from tax increases. We just didn’t expect the no-cliff option to impose direct taxes on over 99% of the legal population. Whereas mass media sound bites, and the president himself, indicated avoiding the cliff would spare most Americans tax hikes; we all expected any avoidance would pertain to transparency in government financials as well as paying for or curbing crazy spending. For a brief on new taxes, cliquez ici.