He quoted Jack Kennedy but sounded more like Lyndon Johnson. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama made sweeping proposals to reduce poverty, revive the middle class and increase taxes on the “well off”. While careful to not declare it outright, the president laid out an agenda that could be called a “war on inequality”. “There are communities in this country where no matter how hard you work, it is virtually impossible to get ahead,” Obama declared in an attack on a core conservative credo. “And that’s why we need to build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class for all who are willing to climb...
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