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 networking company LinkedIn.
The questioner described himself as unemployed by choice after succeeding at a search-engine startup company that did "quite well" — he was later identified as former Google executive 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 Silicon Valley's wealthiest.
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