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Barack Obama: “The cost of lowering rates for everybody across the board 20 percent ... costs about $5 trillion.”

On the recordOctober 15, 2012
The cost of lowering rates for everybody across the board 20 percent ... costs about $5 trillion.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York

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