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"President Barack Obama is urging Congress to pass an extension of tax cuts for middle class families, saying a tax increase for them would be like a \"lump of coal\" for Christmas.Obama took the stage, trying to gain the upper hand in the impending fiscal cliff crisis.In his first campaign-style event to sell his solution, Obama said in the Philadelphia suburbs that Republicans should extend existing Bush-era tax rates for households earning $250,000 or less, while allowing increases to kick in for the wealthy.He said both sides need to \"get out of our comfort zones\" to reach an agreement.\"It's not acceptable to me and I don't think it's acceptable to you to hold middle class tax cuts hostage simply because they don't want tax rates on upper income folks to go up,\" Obama said.\u00A0Obama toured a manufacturing facility that builds construction toys, joking that he is keeping his own \"naughty and nice list\" for Congress and urging the public to pressure lawmakers to pass the tax cut extension for the middle class."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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