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Poll: How can U.S. best avoid falling off fiscal cliff?

If Congress doesn't find another way of shrinking

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Are you worried about falling off the fiscal cliff? That's a term for the automatic federal spending cuts, and the expiration of tax breaks, that will jolt the economy at the start of 2013 if Congress doesn't address the problem.

Economists have said that the sudden hit to the economy, valued at $728 billion according to a Moody's Analytics report, would be strong enough to send the country...

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