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Obama, Boehner trade offers to avert ‘fiscal cliff’

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a test of divided government, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner sought an elusive compromise Tuesday to prevent economy-damaging year-end tax increases for the middle class, speaking by phone after a secretive exchange of proposals.

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Everyones taxes need to go up. Low income, lower income, middle income, upper income. We can not vote for and then demand big goverment and not be willing to pay for it.

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I hear Obama is pushing hard for a stupidity tax. Here's hoping it passes.