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Barack Obama: It is wrong for Warren Buffett's secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett.

On the recordDecember 5, 2011
It is wrong for Warren Buffett's secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie

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