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RNC: A Taxing Night
March 25, 2009Last Night President Obama Was Asked If He Would Sign A Budget If It Did Not Contain The Middle Class Tax Cuts That He Has Been Pushing. ABC's Jake Tapper: "Thank you, Mr. President. Right now on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats are writing a budget, and according to press accounts and their own statements, they're not including the middle-class tax cut that you include in the stimulus. They're talking about phasing that out. They're not including the cap-and-trade that you have in your budget, and they're not including other measures. I know when you outlined your four priorities over the weekend, a number of these things were not in there. Will you sign a budget if it does not contain a middle-class tax cut, does not contain cap-and- trade?" (President Barack Obama, Press Conference, Washington, D.C., 3/24/09) Full release