Another $5 trillion tax cut that favors the wealthy is not change. I'm not going to turn Medicare into a voucher just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. I'm going to lower taxes for middle class folks. Let's also make sure the wealthiest households pay a little bit more.
Obama outlines his stance on tax policy and the need for fairness.
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Don’t tell me you’re a Democrat but you’re kind of disappointed right now, so you’re not doing anything.
I think that approach is a smart, measured approach, designed to address a very particular problem in a very particular moment in time.
There's been some confusion, I think, around this lately, and frankly, coming from the White House and some of the other positions of authority that suggest, even before we had determined who the perpetrator of this evil act was, that…
And we’re going to do it in a temporary basis because we’re keeping our eye on where we want to be long term.
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