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Obama Looks to Twitter for Help on Fiscal Cliff

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Reason Staff | 11.28.2012 11:08 AM

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President Obama's campaign for his "fiscal cliff" plan includes the Twitter-verse.

The White House has set up a new Twitter hashtag: "My2K," a reference to the extra $2,200 in taxes it says the average family will pay if all the George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year.

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