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Barack Obama: Taxing employee health benefits is the largest middle-class tax increase in history.

On the recordMarch 10, 2009
Taxing employee health benefits is the largest middle-class tax increase in history.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama criticized proposals to tax health benefits as detrimental to the middle class.

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