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Blogs Liberty and Power Has Obama Endorsed a 19 Percent Maximum Income Tax Rate?

Jul 13, 2009

Has Obama Endorsed a 19 Percent Maximum Income Tax Rate?

by Liberty and Power

No such luck but this quotation from Obama's Africa tour has to win this week's prize for unintended irony:

"No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top."