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As a percentage of income / wealth gains, did you pay more or less tax than last year?
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Most Tea Partiers don’t know.
It’s the Joe-the-Plumber and Sarah Palin mentality, remember? The two of them are in bed together.

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I paid higher effective tax rates in 2009 than in 2008 to both the state and the federal government. It’s all there in black and white on my income tax returns.

So you can understand why I have to laugh every time a liberal, including Obama, asserts that I’m paying lower taxes since he took office.