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Next year, taxes are set to go up for middle-class families unless Congress acts.
We've got to make sure that taxes don't go up on middle-class families, that our economy remains strong, that we're creating jobs.
She's a senior citizen from Virginia, and we invited her to the White House because she wrote in to explain why it is so important for all of us to make sure that taxes don't go up on the middle class.
Just before we got here, Congress did the right thing and voted to make sure that taxes would not go up on middle-class families at the end of this month. (Applause.) Congress also agreed to extend unemployment insurance for millions of Americans -- maybe some of your family members -- who are still out there looking for a job.
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But if Congress refuses to act, middle class taxes will go up.
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The Senate has already passed a bill that would make sure that middle-class taxes do not go up next year by a single dime.
So from the start, my concern was making sure that we had a tax code that was fair and that protected the middle class, and my biggest priority was making sure that middle-class taxes did not go up.
Our biggest concern is if this Congress does not act by the end of the year, taxes for middle-class families is going to go up.
Independent analysts who have looked at plans like this one have concluded that middle class taxes will have to go up to pay for lower rates for millionaires and billionaires.
"Independent analysts who have looked at plans like this one have concluded that middle class taxes will have to go up to pay for lower rates for millionaires and billionaires, " he said.
With land-trust-monitored farms in the neighbourhood, houses and land prices may go up, taking them out of the middle-class market.
Well, they get a chance to vote on whether we should cut taxes for middle-class families, or let them go up.
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He wants to makes sure, first and foremost, that the middle class does not have their taxes go up on January 1st.
Instead, get up and go shopping, enroll in a yoga class, join a club sport, work out or take a cooking class with a friend.
And if the position is that the middle class ought to have its taxes go up and then get stuck again because of a refusal of Congress to do its job, that's just absolutely unacceptable.
If Congress doesn't act, middle-class families will see their income taxes go up on January 1st.
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Today President Obama visited one of the 114 million American families who would see their taxes go up next year if Congress fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts.
But he will not accept a deal that, in order to protect some of the wealthiest Americans from having their taxes go up, shifts the burden unduly onto seniors and the middle class.
Class sizes in Detroit high schools are expected to go up to about 60 next year because of school closings to help minimize a budget deficit.
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When it comes time to stand up for the middle class so that our kids can go to college and our families can make a decent living, save for retirement, you know what my husband is going to do.
So when it comes time to stand up for the middle class so that our kids can go to college and our families can make a decent living and save for retirement, you know what my husband is going to do, right?
Long secular bull markets in any asset class tend to fool us into believing their prices only go up.
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Look, I refuse to go along with a plan that asks middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut.
And what we should do right now is give middle-class families and small business owners a guarantee that their taxes will not go up next year.
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Lastly, sorry but an upper middle class kid from a lawyer growing up in Seattle and dropping out of Harvard did not go through the same societal system as a kid from Watts.
The last thing we can afford to do right now is raise taxes on middle-class families. (Applause.) If we allow these taxes to go up, the result would be that a lot of people most likely would spend less, and that means that the economy would grow less.
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