The Fiscal Cliff in Animated GIFs

If you’ve been wanting to figure out what actually happened with the whole Fiscal Cliff brouhaha but have needed a little sugar to help the medicine go down, the Washington Post recaps the entire debate in animated GIFs and infographics.

If you’ve been wanting to figure out what actually happened with the whole Fiscal Cliff brouhaha but have needed a little sugar to help the medicine go down, the Washington Post recaps the entire debate in animated GIFs and infographics.

Starting with the Clinton surplus the Bush tax cuts were designed to, ahem, liberate, the Post lays out the debate over the budget in scenes from Garfield, the Jerry Springer show, Batman and Harry Potter.

The quick and dirty: Bush’s tax cuts sent the budget deficit skyrocketing.

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