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Bill. bernie sanders was asked about jake tapper, saying 90 would get -- is that a good thing? he said yeah. that's why we should make them for the middle class permanent. ted cruz took advantage of that saying yes, let's make them permanent, join me in cosponsored legislation. would this be a wise play that ted cruz just floated there to put the onus on democrats to say okay, let's do this. make the middle class tax cuts permanent and make them oppose it? >> i actually think it is really -- i think it was really smart. anything that you give the' leek tore rat -- any freebee or any entitlemen...

>> it is the way we work. >> republicans appealing to their democrat colleagues to help make tax relief for the middle class permanent. >> once the bills on the floor, my democratic collect want to offer an amendment to waive the budget act. to make the individual rates permanent. they likely won't get much resistance from the republican side. i think we should at least notify them. >> if they don't get support from democrats, the cultivation from republican leaders as nobody is going to want taxes to go up in ten years, so congress at that point will find a way to extend the individual cuts. ...

Isn't that a good thing? >> yeah, it is a very good thing. that's why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent. but what the republicans did is made the tax breaks for corporations permanent. the tax breaks for the middle class temporary. and according to the tax policy center, that same organization, at the end of ten years, 83% of the benefits go to the top 1%. 60% of the benefits go to the top 1/10 of 1%. meanwhile, over 180 million americans will pay more in taxes. 13 million americans as a result of this legislation will lose health insurance. health care premiums...

Well, and it's kind of actually a romney care bill, it's kind of the bill that romney and ted kennedy negotiated in massachusetts that romney's run away from. what was great about the president's speech today is he got his voice back. he laid down real dividing lines. do you want a tax cut for the wealthy, or do you want a tax cut for the middle class? do you want to invest in america, help build our roads, help build our railroads, or do you want to continue to let corporations have tax loopholes for shipping jobs overseas? those kind of dividing lines are very similar, by the way, to what ha...

They asked students where the event took place to fill the empty seats at last minute. with his recruited audience in place the president charged forward on the subject of the bush tax cuts. he took a page from liberals on campaigns past. class warfare. >> the president: i believe we ought to make the tax cuts for the middle class permanent. for the middle class, permanent. but the republican leader of the house doesn't want to stop there. make no mistake, he and his party believe we should also give a permanent tax cut to the wealthiest 2% of americans. >> sean: shockingly the president went ...