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Barack Obama: “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, a quarter million dollars a year, you will not see your taxes increase a…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2009
If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, a quarter million dollars a year, you will not see your taxes increase a single dime. I repeat, not one single dime.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama reassures that families earning less than $250,000 will not face tax increases.

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