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20 Sep 2011
US WEALTHY must pay the same tax rate as the middle classes, said president Barack Obama.
In a speech yesterday, the president said those earning more than a million dollars a year should pay as similar rate to the middle classes.
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The idea that a hedge fund manager should pay the same tax rate as a plumber was not class warfare, but 'math', Obama added.
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Is this an article?
It's three sentences. Some additional background on what tax rates are currently in force in the US would have been useful but as it stands the 'article' hardly tells me any more than the title.
Posted by: Helen , 20 Sep 2011 | 15:57