According to recently released tax returns President Obama and his wife paid a 20.5% federal tax rate on $789,674 in Adjusted Gross Income (“AGI”) for 2011. This level of income lands the Obama household in the top 1% of US households when compared to the median income of just under $50,000.
And what will President Obama do with his top 1% income? He’ll avoid his own program come to be known as the Buffett Tax. The President continually demonizes “the rich” and seeks to impose a minimum 30% tax on incomes over $1,000,000. He earns an income in the top 1% of all households and yet he’d avoid his own proposal? What happened to paying one’s “fair” share?!
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