In the news, Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

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from The Washington Post (DC)

The GOP will raise taxes — on the middle class and working poor
It’s the payroll tax that they want to raise — to 6.2 percent from 4.2 percent of your paycheck, a level established for one year in December’s budget deal at Democrats’ insistence.

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