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Our people are out of work, and there's a sense of withdrawal.
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But our country is innately very strong.
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And I believe we require someone who can work harmoniously with the Congress, who can work closely with the people of this country, and who can bring a new image and a new spirit to Washington.
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We never increased sales taxes or income tax or property tax.
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As a matter of fact, the year before I went out of office we gave a $50 million refund to the property taxpayers of Georgia.
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We spend six hundred dollars per person in this country - every man, woman and child - for health care.
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We still rank fifteenth among all the nations of the world in infant mortality.
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And our cancer rate is uh - higher than any country in the world.
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Employment ought to be restored to our people.
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1,586
We spend now 700 percent more on unemployment compensation than we did eight years ago when the Republicans took over the White House.
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1,587
Our people wanna go back to work.
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1,588
Our education system can be improved.
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1,591
It used to be that the average - uh family could own a house.
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1,592
But now less than a third of our people can afford to buy their own homes.
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1,593
The budget was more grossly out of balance last year than ever before in the history of our country - $65 billion - primarily because our people are not at work.
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1,599
I believe that if we are inspired, if we can achieve a degree of unity, if we can set our goals high enough and work toward recognized goals with industry and labor and agriculture along with government at all levels, then we can achieve great things.
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And with inspiration and hard work we can achieve great things.
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But more importantly, let the people in our own country realize that we still live in the greatest nation on earth.
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1,655
I want to thank Governor Romney and the University of Denver for your hospitality.
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1,657
And so I just want to wish, Sweetie, you happy anniversary and let you know that a year from now we will not be celebrating it in front of 40 million people.
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1,663
Over the last 30 months, we've seen 5 million jobs in the private sector created.
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The auto industry has come roaring back.
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1,665
And housing has begun to rise.
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1,666
But we all know that we've still got a lot of work to do.
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1,667
And so the question here tonight is not where we've been, but where we're going.
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1,668
Governor Romney has a perspective that says if we cut taxes, skewed towards the wealthy, and roll back regulations, that we'll be better off.
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Not the one we've been on, not the one the president describes as a top-down, cut taxes for the rich.
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1,697
Number two, open up more trade, particularly in Latin America.
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1,702
Number five, champion small business.
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1,710
Well, let me talk specifically about what I think we need to do.
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First, we've got to improve our education system and we've made enormous progress drawing on ideas both from Democrats and Republicans that are already starting to show gains in some of the toughest to deal with schools.
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1,712
We've got a program called Race to the Top that has prompted reforms in 46 states around the country, raising standards, improving how we train teachers.
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And I want to make sure that we keep tuition low for our young people.
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1,717
I want to provide tax breaks for companies that are investing here in the United States.
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1,725
How we pay for that, reduce the deficit, and make the investments that we need to make, without dumping those costs onto middle-class Americans, I think is one of the central questions of this campaign.
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First of all, I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut.
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1,739
Middle- income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300.
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At the same time, gasoline prices have doubled under the president.
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But the president mentioned a couple of other ideas I'll just note.
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1,754
I agree: Education is key, particularly the future of our economy.
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The second area, taxation, we agree, we ought to bring the tax rates down.
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But in order for us not to lose revenue, have the government run out of money, I also lower deductions and credits and exemptions, so that we keep taking in the same money when you also account for growth.
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On government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half.
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I'm going to make sure we can continue to burn clean coal.
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1,774
My -- my number-one principal is, there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit.
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I want to underline that: no tax cut that adds to the deficit.
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1,778
So any -- any language to the contrary is simply not accurate.
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1,780
Well, I think -- let's talk about taxes, because I think it's instructive.
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Now, four years ago, when I stood on this stage, I said that I would cut taxes for middle-class families.
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And that's exactly what I did.
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And by giving them those tax cuts, they had a little more money in their pocket, and so maybe they can buy a new car.
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They can buy a computer for their kid who's going off to college, which means they're spending more money, businesses have more customers, businesses make more profits, and then hire more workers.
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Now, Governor Romney's proposal that he has been promoting for 18 months calls for a $5 trillion tax cut, on top of $2 trillion of additional spending for our military.
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And he is saying that he is going to pay for it by closing loopholes and deductions.
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But I'm going to make an important point here, Jim.
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When you add up all the loopholes and deductions that upper-income individuals can -- are currently taking advantage of, you take those all away, you don't come close to paying for $5 trillion in tax cuts and $2 trillion in additional military spending.
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Now, that's not my analysis.
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So if the tax plan he described were a tax plan I was asked to support, I'd say absolutely not.
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What I've said is I won't put in place a tax cut that adds to the deficit.
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But that -- that is not the case.
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There are six other studies that looked at the study you describe and say it's completely wrong.
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But let's get at the bottom line.
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And the reason is because small business pays that individual rate; 54 percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed not at the corporate tax rate, but at the individual tax rate.
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1,839
And now, five weeks before the election, he's saying that his big, bold idea is, "Never mind."
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So at the same time that my tax plan has already lowered taxes for 98 percent of families, I also lowered taxes for small businesses 18 times.
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But under Governor Romney's definition, there are a whole bunch of millionaires and billionaires who are small businesses.
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Donald Trump is a small business.
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Now, I know Donald Trump doesn't like to think of himself as small anything, but -- but that's how you define small businesses if you're getting business income.
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... the small businesses we're talking about...
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But those businesses that are in the last 3 percent of businesses happen to employ half -- half of all the people who work in small business.
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Those are the businesses that employ one-quarter of all the workers in America.
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Now, and -- and I've talked to a guy who has a very small business.
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He's in the electronics business in -- in St. Louis.
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He said he and his son calculated how much they pay in taxes, federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state income tax, state sales tax, state property tax, gasoline tax.
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1,881
And your plan is to take the tax rate on successful small businesses from 35 percent to 40 percent.
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I don't want to cost jobs.
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That's by far the most effective and efficient way to get this budget balanced.
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The approach that Governor Romney's talking about is the same sales pitch that was made in 2001 and 2003, and we ended up with the slowest job growth in 50 years, we ended up moving from surplus to deficits, and it all culminated in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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We created 23 million new jobs.
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1,909
My plan is not to put in place any tax cut that will add to the deficit.
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My priority is putting people back to work in America.
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We've got 23 million people out of work or stopped looking for work in this country.
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I'm glad you raised that, and it's a -- it's a critical issue.
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I think it's not just an economic issue, I think it's a moral issue.
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I think it's, frankly, not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in, knowing those burdens are going to be passed on to the next generation and they're going to be paying the interest and the principal all their lives.
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And the amount of debt we're adding, at a trillion a year, is simply not moral.
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The problem with raising taxes is that it slows down the rate of growth.
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The president said he'd cut the deficit in half.
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When I walked into the Oval Office, I had more than a trillion-dollar deficit greeting me.
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And we know where it came from: two wars that were paid for on a credit card; two tax cuts that were not paid for; and a whole bunch of programs that were not paid for; and then a massive economic crisis.
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And despite that, what we've said is, yes, we had to take some initial emergency measures to make sure we didn't slip into a Great Depression, but what we've also said is, let's make sure that we are cutting out those things that are not helping us grow.
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That's the largest cut in the discretionary domestic budget since Dwight Eisenhower.
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Now, we all know that we've got to do more.
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And so I've put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan.
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And the way we do it is $2.50 for every cut, we ask for $1 of additional revenue, paid for, as I indicated earlier, by asking those of us who have done very well in this country to contribute a little bit more to reduce the deficit.
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Let -- let me just finish their point, because you're looking for contrast.
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Now, if you take such an unbalanced approach, then that means you are going to be gutting our investments in schools and education.
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Simpson-Bowles, the president should have grabbed that.
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But in my view, the president should have grabbed it.
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That's what we've done, made some adjustments to it, and we're putting it forward before Congress right now, a $4 trillion plan...
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