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on january 1st next year the bush tax cuts, those expire. those tax cuts expire. also, if do you nothing, that means if nothing changes your taxes will likely go up. at the same time, medicare doctor pay will also go down. on top of those tax increases, the very same moment massive cuts to federal spending. if current law stays in place, the government must slash $1 trillion over nine years from federal spending. half of them from defense, half from nondefense departments. the bipartisan policy center says it will cost about a million jobs over two years, one million jobs over two years. not just government jobs, jobs in the private sector mshgs from contractors working with the government and they are quite frankly right now trying to figure out how to prepare those layoff notices. the economy is barely growing right now. 1.7% if you average out the first half of 2012. what we ve seen and what the forecast is. the second half of 2012, 2.5%. this is a ubs forecast and some sa