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Barack Obama: I continue to believe that extending permanently the upper income tax cuts would be a mistake and that we can't afford…

On the recordNovember 11, 2010
I continue to believe that extending permanently the upper income tax cuts would be a mistake and that we can't afford it.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama expresses his stance against permanently extending tax cuts for the wealthy.

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