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Barack Obama: We can cut back Government spending that we can't afford, but I will also ask anybody who is making over $250,000 a year…

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
We can cut back Government spending that we can't afford, but I will also ask anybody who is making over $250,000 a year to just go back to the rates they were paying under Bill Clinton, because, by the way, that worked.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Campaign Rally in Jacksonville

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