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'Raise My Taxes,' Town-Hall Participant Tells Obama -- VIDEO

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Updated: September 27, 2011 | 9:08 a.m.
September 26, 2011 | 3:58 p.m.

At a town-hall meeting hosted by LinkedIn on Monday, President Obama got a softball question from a Silicon Valley resident who enjoys willful unemployment due to the success of an unnamed start-up search engine that "did pretty well."

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