【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 s to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middleclass Americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point? Or should we ask some of the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share?That’s the the last decade, we’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars on what was supposed to be a temporary tax cut for the wealthiest two percent of we’re scheduled to spend almost a trillion , the wealthiest Americans are paying taxes at one of the lowest rates in 50 Buffett is paying a lower rate than his , over the last 30 years, the tax rates for middle class families have barely ’s not doesn’t make any we want to keep giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans like me, or Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates – people who don’t need them and never asked for them? Or do we want to keep investing in things that will grow our economy and keep us secure? Because we can’t afford to do , some people call this class I think asking a billionaire to pay at least the same tax rate as his secretary is just mon don’t envy success in this aspire to we also believe that anyone who does well for themselves should do their fair share in return, so that more people have the opportunity to get ahead – not just a ’s the America I believe in the next few weeks, Members of Congress will get a chance to show you where they is going to vote on what’s called the Buffett Rule: If you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your ine in taxes as middle class families the other hand, if you make under $250,000 a year – like 98 percent of American families do – your taxes shouldn’t go ’re the ones struggling with the rising cost of everything from college tuition to ’re the ones who deserve a every Member of Congress is going to go on if they vote to keep giving tax breaks to people like me – tax breaks our country can’t afford – then they’re going to have to explain to you where that money es it’s going to add to our deficit, or it’s going to e out of your will have to pay more for their Medicare will see their interest rates go up at a time when they can’t afford who are scraping by will have to do more because the richest Americans are doing ’s not ’s not who we America, our story has never been about what we can do by ourselves – it’s about what we can do ’s about believing in our future and the future of this tell your Members of Congress to do the right them up, write them a letter, pay them a visit, and tell them to stop giving tax breaks to people who don’t need them and start investing in the things that will help our economy grow and put people back to ’s how we’ll make this country a little fairer, a little more just, and a whole lot Obama Says House Must Pass Bipartisan Transportation Bill Saturday March 24, 2012 week, I traveled across the country to talk about my alloftheabove energy strategy for America – a strategy where we produce more oil and gas here at home, but also more biofuels and fuelefficient cars。more solar power and wind power and other sources of clean, renewable , you wouldn’t know it by listening to some of the folks running for office today, but producing more oil at home has been, and will continue to be, a key part of my energy my Administration, we’re producing more oil than at any other time in the last eight ’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record we’ve added enough oil and gas pipeline to circle the entire Earth and then are the as I’ve been saying all week, even though America uses around 20 percent of the world’s oil, we only have around 2 percent of the world’s known oil even if we drilled everywhere, we’d still be relying on other countries for ’s why we’re pursuing an alloftheabove ’re producing more fuelefficient solar wind week, I was in Boulder City, Nevada, where they’ve got the largest solar plant of its kind anywhere in the ’s the was at Ohio State University, where they’ve developed the fastest electric car in the ’s the don’t want to cede these clean energy industries to China or Germany or any other want to see solar panels and wind turbines and fuelefficient cars manufactured right here in America, by American , getting these clean energy industries to locate here requires us to maintain a national mitment to new research and it also requires us to build worldclass transportation and munications networks, so that any pany can move goods and sell products all around the world as quickly and efficiently as much of America needs to be rebuilt right ’ve got crumbling roads and power grid that wastes too much inplete highspeed broadband we’ve got thousands of unemployed construction workers who’ve been looking for a job ever since the housing market once again, we’re waiting on see, in a matter of days, funding will stop for all sorts of transportation sites will go will have to go our economy will take a Congress cannot let that at a time when we should be doing everything in our power – Democrats and Republicans – to keep this recovery moving Senate did their passed a bipartisan transportation had the support of 52 Democrats and 22 it’s up to the House to follow suit。to put aside partisan posturing, end the gridlock, and do what’s right for the American is mon now, all across this country, we’ve got contractors and construction workers who have never been more eager to get back on the long term transportation bill would put them to those are good just released a report that shows nearly 90 percent of the construction, manufacturing and trade jobs created through investments in transportation projects are middle class are exactly the jobs we need right now, and they’ll make the economy stronger for ’ve done this the Great Depression, America built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate World War II, we connected our states with a system of and Republican administrations 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