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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING Obama defends push to raise taxes MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Inviting questions, President Barack Obama got one he was happy to answer. ''Would you please raise my taxes?'' one man asked the president at a town hall here Monday, hosted by the social net- working company LinkedIn. The questioner described himself as unemployed by choice after succeeding at a search-engine startup com- pany that did ''quite well'' — he was later identified as former Google execu- tive Doug Edwards — and said he wants the nation to spend more on education, infrastructure and job training. That gave Obama a chance to promote his nearly $450 billion jobs plan that would be paid for by higher taxes opposed by Republicans but not, evidently, by some of Sili- con Valley's wealthiest. ''I appreciate the fact that you recognize that we're in this thing togeth- er. We're not our own,'' Obama said. ''Those of us who have been successful, we've always got to remember that.'' In a session dominated by economic concerns, the president plugged his jobs agenda in fielding ques- tions on the employment picture, education, Medicare and Social Secu- rity. The president spoke midway through a three- state Western swing built largely around fundraising for himself and other Democrats. Obama is in a deadlock with congressional Repub- licans, including House leaders, over raising taxes as part of a formula for helping a staggering econ- omy. He has put forward a debt-reduction plan that would raise $1.5 trillion in new revenue, including about $800 billion over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax cuts for cou- ples making more than $250,000. Obama also said the financial crisis rippling through Europe is ''scar- ing the world'' and that steps taken by European nations to stem the euro- zone debt problem ''haven't been as quick as they need to be.'' His refer- ence to the European debt crisis came on the heels of remarks by Treasury Sec- retary Timothy Geithner, who over the weekend urged governments to unite with the European Central Bank to help defuse the ''most serious risk now confronting the world economy.'' M-F 6am-2pm* Now on Facebook Rosser's Bakery & Specialty Foods "Bread is our Specialty" Milling Wheat into Flour Made with Organic & Local Ingredients 446 Antelope Blvd. #38 Left side of Antelope Holiday Mkt 529-1687 In the short term, Obama wants Congress to cover the cost of his jobs plan by, among other changes, limiting the item- ized deductions for chari- table contributions and other deductions that can be taken by individuals making more than $200,000 a year and fami- lies making over $250,000. Obama said he did not want to punish the rich, but rather to return income tax rates to the level of the 1990s that he said were fair. ''During that period, the rich got richer,'' the presi- dent said. ''The middle class expanded. People rose out of poverty.'' Edwards, former direc- tor of consumer marketing and brand management for Google, encouraged Obama to ''stay strong'' in his push for higher taxes on the wealthy. Obama also made no apologies for Wall Street regulation and environ- mental rules and doesn't buy the GOP charge they're costing jobs. The event was at the Computer History Muse- um, near LinkedIn's Sili- con Valley headquarters. Referring to the coun- tries of Europe, Obama said they have not fully dealt with banking crises, and now the struggles in Greece have compounded the problem. ''So they are going through a financial crisis that is scaring the world and they're trying to take responsible actions, but those actions haven't been quite as quick as they need to be,'' he said. Obama is on the road selling both his jobs plan and his own re-election. The town hall was the White House's latest attempt to meld old-school campaigning with new media capabilities. 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The line was a riff on Romney's zinger during a debate in Tampa, Fla., when he suggested that Texas' job growth had more to do with the state's natural gas and oil supply than Perry's leadership. When asked how much credit Perry deserves for the state's growing employment, Romney replied: ''If you're dealt four aces, that doesn't nec- essarily make you a great poker player.'' Perry's advisers appar- ently saw the crack as an opportunity to illustrate personality, background and, perhaps, character differences between Perry and Romney, the top two candidates in a GOP field that mostly agrees on major policy issues. Dead Sea Scrolls go online JERUSALEM (AP) — Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's national museum and the web giant Google. 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