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On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
The President in 2008 ran on a platform of increasing taxes. Before he was sworn in, he made an announcement that during a time of such high unemployment--and it was not even 10 percent then; it eventually got to be 10 percent--you should not raise taxes in that period of time.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley references Obama's 2008 tax increase stance amid rising unemployment.

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