On the recordJune 22, 2011
I would like to discuss the IRS information that shows the top 400 income earners in the country who earned over a quarter of a billion dollars each actually paid taxes of 18.2 percent.
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Whitehouse points out tax disparities among the wealthiest Americans.
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