President Barack Obama speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 2, 2012. (WHite House) 

Obama's Budget To Tax The Wealthy

President Barack Obama on Monday will propose a multi-trillion-dollar US government budget that seeks to spur job creation and impose higher taxes on the rich to help reduce the deficit, laying down a clear election-year marker of his priorities.

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          Obama's Budget To Tax The Wealthy

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