Obama, GOP jostle over tax-break policies

September 8, 2010

Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP President Obama discusses the economy at the Cuyahoga Community College in Parma, Ohio.  PUBLIC OPINION From Truman to Obama, see each president’s ratings with By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY President challenged Republicans on Wednesday to join him in expanding business tax breaks, building roads and rails, and cutting taxes on the middle class — policies he ascribed to past presidents. By pushing business tax breaks once heralded by and , Obama sought to do what did as president after Republicans took control of Congress in 1995: steal their thunder. He also put pressure on Republicans to…