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Barack Obama: “Now you can call it class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2012
Now you can call it class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama defends his tax policy aimed at the wealthy.

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