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UPDATE: Buckhorn on payroll tax cuts: ‘We need Congress to act’

Posted Dec 7, 2011 by Christian M. Wade

Updated Dec 7, 2011 at 04:11 PM

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn on Wednesday waded into the bitter partisan fight over President Barack Obama’s push to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut.

Obama is pushing Republicans in Congress to extend and expand the payroll tax cut, saying failure to do so would cost middle-class families $1,000 next year and raise taxes on 160 million Americans.

Republicans in Congress are divided over that, but they strongly disagree with the president’s plan to pay for it with a surtax on millionaires. Most favor a plan to freeze federal spending and other spending cuts.

Buckhorn, a Democrat, joined Durham, N.C., Mayor Bill Bell in a conference call for reporters on Wednesday to talk about the impact on middle-class families in their communities from not extending the tax cut and urge Congress to support the plan.

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