President Obama said Friday that if Congress did not extend tax cuts
for the middle class by Jan. 1, it would be like receiving a “lump
of coal” for the holiday season.
“That's a Scrooge Christmas,” Obama said in brief remarks at a Pennsylvania toy factory.
The visit to the manufacturer of Tinkertoys and K’NEX building sets
represents an effort by Obama to exert public pressure on Republicans in
Congress to agree to an extension of middle-class tax rates that would
allow rates on the wealthy to rise.
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