"If we have to push it through this way, no one is going to remember how messy it was, " a top White House adviser told CNN.

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Whether it is enough to push them one way or another would best be answered by an independent analysis into the projected impact of removing the tax credit.

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The authorities have been forced to push interest rates close to zero in order to give investors a one-way bet.

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However, not unlike so many who want to hold onto their employment, what people would like to do often gives way to a very different course of action when push comes to shove and one is suddenly looking unemployment squarely in the eye.

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