And now you have leaders in the Senate saying we're not going to try and provide any certainty to this economy at all. We're going to actually increase the level of uncertainty. They're willing to let the American economy take almost $500 billion blow...in terms of increasing taxes in 2013. and take a chance on being able to win this political argument, which is just sheer political demagoguery. All right. (03:25–03:35)
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