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Arizona Republican Congressman and soon-to-be Senator Jeff Flake said he expects the house to pass a senate-approved deal to save the nation from going off the fiscal cliff. The Senate voted 89-8 to put off the budget cuts and tax hikes for two months.

"With a lop-sided vote like that in the Senate I have to assume it will pass the House."

Flake said he is troubled by the two-month delay.

"Particularly on the spending side. We have to cut entitlement spending and the Senate package fails to do that. It does deal with the tax side and that's a good thing."

Flake said you have yet to see the last high wire act in Washington with the debt ceiling debate heating up in about two months.

Jim Cross, Reporter

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    desert_don wrote...
    We Know Supply-Side Works
    January 1, 2013 4:19 pm
    Three examples of supply-side taxation -- Kennedy, Reagan, Bush 43 -- have demonstrated that reduced tax rates release more money into the private sector, expanding the economy and, concurrently, the tax base. The result was federal-revenue increases. 80’s-era deficits were on the spending, not the taxation side. While Herman Cain's 9-9-9 was well conceived, better still would be 11-11-lottery, zeroing out taxes on businesses and establishing a national lottery. Business taxes have the effect of a VAT, while lotteries are known to operate in the black. Long-term prosperity will be the result
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