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S211 Wrote: Sep 22, 2012 12:35 PM
Ah yes the elusive "fair share" question. A better question would be, "What is the 'fair' amount of taxpayer dollars to spend?"
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Barack Obama doesn't think the rich are paying their fair share of income taxes. So what is their fair share?

I posed this question to Fox News commentator Juan Williams in Dallas the other day. "The top 10 percent of income earners are paying 71 percent of all income taxes," I said. "Isn't that enough?" Although Juan was trying to defend the Obama position, he didn't have an answer.

Then I turned the question around. "The bottom one-half of the population is paying zero, or close to zero, income taxes. What's their fair share?" He didn't have...
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