The positions of the democratic and republican party are very different. Republicans have more conservative beliefs such as higher eligibilty age for medicare and no raise on income tax. Republican house speaker John Boehner first offered a "Plan B", in order to avoid the fiscal cliff, but he has now taken back the plan mostly because of lack of support from his political party. The republicans also want to reduce the deficit, as do we all, however they do not want to do so under a democratic president and senate. The main focus for Democrats is to return to the Clinton-era tax rates, and tax couples higher if they make over $250,000 a year. Obama has said that he will go over the fiscal cliff to make sure the wealthy pays more taxes.
To conduct my research, I searched fiscal cliff and searched republican and democratic positions. in exact words, i put republican and democrats in the exact words and also fiscal cliff as well. I filtered the search to as late as a month recent because more recent information tends to be more accurate. What was most helpful was the words republican and democrat because those really made the difference in the searches. These are most important phrases because their positions are very different in the fiscal cliff.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/progress-reported-fiscal-cliff-talks-article-1.1218376
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/12/20/on-the-fiscal-cliff-republican-rebels-are-right-no-deal-is-better-than-a-bad-deal/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/22/fiscal-cliff_n_2351703.html
Good, though there is not quite an overview of the two sides' positions. I would not say that more recent information is always necessarily more accurate; the truth is more nuanced than that. I would recommend using even more and more narrow search terms to focus in on the exact info you want.
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