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Vice President Biden:
All the people you meet
here today and you see,
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these are hard-working
folks who don't need to
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see their taxes go up.
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The ability of consumers to
actually have money in their
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pocket to be able to go out
and support their families in
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terms of the Christmas
gifts they want to buy.
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As I met with some small
business people in the White
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House, and three of them said,
you know, we're in the red nine
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months a year, and we count
on three months a year to put
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us in the black.
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And so I think it's
important Congress acts now.
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I mean right now.
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All it has to do is take
a single vote to extend
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the middle class tax cut.
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If they don't do that and we
go over this so-called fiscal
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cliff, the fact is that it's
going -- it's been estimated
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that $200 billion less will be
spent next year, it's going to
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have an impact on the economy.
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And so I think I hope we have
a lot we have to settle, but
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there's one thing we should all
agree on, and that is the middle
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class tax cut should
be made permanent.
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It's already passed the
Senate, it takes a single vote.
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We are fully prepared to
work with our Republican
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colleagues to make sure
we deal with, quote,
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the rest of the fiscal cliff.
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Thanks for shopping with me.
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And I know you won't tell
anybody what I bought for
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Christmas gifts.
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Customer:
Oh, we won't tell nobody.
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Vice President Biden:
Okay. Thank you very much.
