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On the recordJuly 31, 2008
The world wants to subsidize -- there's no way. You would get impeached as the president if you went up to Detroit and asked the auto workers, 'You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to raise your taxes so we can send them over to India and China.'
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Gergen comments on the political unfeasibility of subsidizing foreign clean energy initiatives.

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