Obama calls for extending middle-class tax cuts
President Obama, drawing a contrast with what he called Republican trickle-down economics, called Monday for temporarily extending the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 while letting the taxes of the wealthiest go up.
Leading Republicans immediately rejected the approach, saying it would be a mistake to raise anyone's taxes in a weak economy.
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