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Politics

Barack Obama, Tax Reformer

Jesse Walker | 7.12.2009 10:23 AM

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The president speaks to Africans:

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

I can't improve on David Beito's sarcastic reaction: "Has Obama endorsed a 19 percent maximum income tax rate?"

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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