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| President Barack Obama's re-election has stiffened Democrats' spine against cutting popular benefit programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Their new resolve could become as big a hurdle to a deal that would skirt crippling tax increases and spending cuts in January as Republicans' resistance to raising tax rates on the wealthy. 'I've made it very clear. I've told anyone that will listen, including everyone in the White House, including the president, that I am not going to be part of having Social Security as part of these talks relating to this deficit,' Reid, D-Nev., told reporters. |
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"crippling tax increases and spending cuts in January"
by BFalcon on Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:15:21 AM