Obama backs new company tax breaks

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President Barack Obama is backing new company tax breaks in an attempt to regain the initiative as mid-term polls loom.

He is lobbying Congress, including a blocking minority of Republicans in the Senate, to let companies in the US write off investment costs until 2011.

So what do business people think of this measure?

Juliana Liu reports.

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