Obama fires up campaign for jobs plan

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Source: Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse

An impassioned US President Barack Obama Friday cranked up pressure on Republicans to back his new tax cuts, deploying the fireworks of the campaign trail to promote his new economic plan.

Obama traveled to the key 2012 swing state of Virginia, the political turf of one of his top Republican foes Eric Cantor, at the start of an effort to sell his $447 billion American Jobs Act in every corner of the country.

The president dared his foes in Congress not to support his plans to cut in half payroll taxes for workers next year, exploiting the traditional Republican desire to reduce the money Americans pay to the government.

"You guys have made pledges never to raise taxes on everybody, ever again. You can't make an exception when the tax breaks are going to middle class people," Obama said, addressing his "good Republican friends."

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