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# This is also about being able to make the investments we need to succeed and it’s about we, as a country, being willing to pay for those investments and closing our deficits.
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- Published: 2012-04-12T19:52:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:23:46.000Z
- Author: Jane Susskind
- Tags: News

This is also about being able to make the investments we need to succeed and it’s about we, as a country, being willing to pay for those investments and closing our deficits.  
Barack Obama, on the Buffet Rule