President Barack Obama gave a populist economic vision during his recent State of the Union address. This would widen the policy battle between the Democrats and Republicans. The president wants to increase the tax on wealthier Americans, support domestic manufacturing, and launch a new probe into the mortgage crisis.

The president’s initiatives would place him as the defender of Americans from the unbalanced tax code. The president said that the same rules should apply from top to bottom. There should be no bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts.

The issues he tackled will be the same ones that Americans would hear all throughout the year as President Obama tries to convince voters to vote for him again. He also wants to discourage companies from outsourcing jobs out of the country.

The president gave little details about his initiatives as he tried to rally the nation to return to old-fashioned American values. He didn’t state anything directly against the GOP but all the initiatives were the opposite of what the Republicans hope to achieve with their policies.

Aside from the year-end extension of the payroll-tax cut, most of President Obama’s ideas don’t have the chance to be approved in Congress. But there are others that he could enact unilaterally, such as the creation of a government task force that would enforce trade laws to crack down on China.

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