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Barack Obama: If you make more than $1 million every year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in taxes as…

On the recordApril 13, 2012
If you make more than $1 million every year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle class families do.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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