Remarks by President Obama on the Payroll Tax Cut Extension

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2011 – 12:30 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody.  In the last few weeks, I set out a simple principle:  Congress should not go home for vacation until it finds a way to avoid hitting 160 million Americans with a tax hike on January 1st.  Extending the payroll tax cut that shows up in people’s paychecks every week is an idea that I proposed in September as part of the American Jobs…