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Barack Obama: “The alternatives, like raising the retirement age or cutting benefits or raising the payroll tax on everybody... those…”

On the recordApril 15, 2008
The alternatives, like raising the retirement age or cutting benefits or raising the payroll tax on everybody... those are not good policy options.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama criticized alternatives to raising the payroll tax cap as poor policy choices.

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