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Need To Know | In Perspective: The Tax Cut Deal | PBS

Duration: 02:22
Program: Need to Know #132
Broadcast Date: Dec. 10, 2010

In the wake of Obama's decision to extend the Bush-era tax cuts Jon Meacham comments on the similarity between today's political climate and that of the 1990s.

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Post Date: December 11, 2010