“A modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs" said Obama

“A modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs” said Obama

Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 06:38 UTC

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President Obama has reiterated his call for high earners in the US to pay more in taxes, in his first news conference since winning re-election. He called for quick legislation to rule out tax rises on the first 250.000 dollars of income, but refused to extend cuts for the wealthiest 2%. Read full article

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Ayayay
Republicans, PLEASE get on.board with trimming 'defense' spending :)..
Ron Paul, world's best Libertarian Republican is 100% behind it.

Anyways, does anyone think the topmost government officials of Arg would allow themselves to be interviewed like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_34tqxAjA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Nov 15th, 2012 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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joe_blog
where are the brits gobblers on this ?
Nov 16th, 2012 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
Hard for regular people not to agree with Obama on this, or even to think he's not going far enough, the Republican Party looks like a sick joke to the rest of the world world...
Nov 17th, 2012 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Isoooooolde is Skare
mercopress should update the latest news from the USA such as the cover up of Libya attack and ex-Cia Petreous cover up scandal.
Too many traitors in the USA
no bueno
Nov 18th, 2012 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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