Everybody got up last night and they were clamoring and yelling very animated speeches about how the Republicans are. They're using a current policy baseline. How could they ever do that? Well, you know what, Back in 2012, President Obama and one of the people working for him at the time named Jeff Zients used the current policy baseline to make permanent the Bush tax cuts. And way he described it, Jeff Zients described it at the time, he called it the alternative fiscal scenario. That's how they explained to the American people. (09:01–09:19)
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Asserts that Obama and Jeff Zients used the current policy baseline to make Bush tax cuts permanent in 2012.
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