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Barack Obama: Let's keep taxes low for 98 percent of Americans, and we can argue about the other 2 percent.

On the recordAugust 2, 2012
Let's keep taxes low for 98 percent of Americans, and we can argue about the other 2 percent.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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