# Can the President Eliminate Capital Gains Taxes On His Own?

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**Created:** [June 22, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-president-eliminate-capital-gains-taxes-on-his-own/625971 "2012-06-22T18:35:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-president-eliminate-capital-gains-taxes-on-his-own/625971/93 "2012-06-28T17:12:49Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> That would be different, but that’s not what you said you were doing when people grumbled in the Pit thread (in which I defended you, I might add.)

Yes, it is exactly what I said I was doing.

> [@Bricker, You're a Jackass Extraordinaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/289):
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> Frankly, I thought using the phrase, “It’s the right thing to do,” in my OP, communicated to an audience of politically aware people, was sufficient linkage to the President’s immigration plan.
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> Thank you.

> [@Bricker, You're a Jackass Extraordinaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/296):
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> Come on.
> 
> [Obama NALEO Speech: Immigration Decision ‘Right Thing To Do’](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/obama-naleo-speech-immigration_n_1619126.html)
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> [Deportation move is right thing to do](http://www.alamosanews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=25346&page=74)
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> [Obama’s Immigration Policy: ‘Right Thing To Do’](http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/t/video/obamas-immigration-policy-thing-16581730)
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> [Obama: Immigration policy change is ‘right thing to do’](http://video.foxnews.com/v/1691688294001/obama-immigration-policy-change-is-right-thing-to-do)
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> [Obama: ‘It is the right thing to do’](http://www.necn.com/06/15/12/Obama-It-is-the-right-thing-to-do/landing_politics.html?blockID=725666&feedID=4212)
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> [Obama: ‘It’s the right thing to do’](http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/1351271)
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> [Obama Says Immigration Change is ‘Right Thing To Do’](http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/obama-says-immigration-change-is-right-thing-to-do--20120615)
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> [Obama: Halting DREAMers’ Deportations the ‘Right Thing to Do’](http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/06/obama_halting_dreamers_deportations_the_right_thing_to_do.html)
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> [Immigration Reprieve ‘Right Thing to Do, Period’  
> PRESIDENT OBAMA EXPLAINS HIS DECISION TO LET YOUNG ILLEGALS STAY](http://www.newser.com/story/148364/immigration-reprieve-right-thing-to-do-period.html)
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