In a White House Press Conference, Press Secretary Jay Carney seems to spill the beans that tax hikes kill jobs. He pretty explicitely says tax cuts create jobs, which is a belief that goes hand-in-hand with the understanding that tax hikes would kill jobs...This makes a variety of the President's policies from tax hikes in Obamacare, to recently peddling for energy industry taxes, rather confusing. Rather than head on a taxpayer funded bus tour of battleground states to talk about jobs, perhaps the President is well aware he should look to relieve the tax burden instead?
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MR. CARNEY: "Well, the White Housedoesn’t create jobs. The government together -- White House, Congress --creates policies that allow for greater job creation. And that can be throughtax cuts, for example, for working Americans; everyone who works pays a payrolltax. And the tax cut that this President pushed for, for one year, for thiscalendar year, he’s pushing for to be extended next year."