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Barack Obama: “Instead of putting people to work on projects that would grow the economy for everyone, they voted to give a huge tax…”

On the recordMay 16, 2014
Instead of putting people to work on projects that would grow the economy for everyone, they voted to give a huge tax cut to households making more than a million dollars a year.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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