11.30.2012

Huffington Post Popular News: Obama Fiscal Cliff Remarks: President Pushes Middle Class Tax Cut Pitch

By JIM KUHNHENN, ASSOCIATED PRESS


HATFIELD, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Congress to pass an extension of tax cuts for middle class families, saying a tax increase for them would be like a "lump of coal" for Christmas.


In his first campaign-style event to sell his solution on the "fiscal cliff," Obama says in the Philadelphia suburbs that Republicans should extend existing Bush-era tax rates for households earning $250,000 or less, while allowing increases to kick in for the wealthy.




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