Obama camp okay with raising taxes to fund social security
Jeffrey Liebman, a policy advisor to the Barack Obama campaign says the McCain campaign put out an economic plan in which they said the Obama campaign cannot afford our benefit promises to seniors for social security. But Liebman says that Obama “does believe we can choose to meet our benefit promises to seniors.” Liebman added that Obama believes the best way to handle social security is “in a bi-partisan way,” and that the place to start in paying for it is “to have the people that can most afford it contribute more revenue.” (0:40)
July 14, 2008
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