{"id":15961,"date":"2012-04-13T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-13T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T16:42:39","slug":"everyone_s_asking_does_obama_pay_a_lower_tax_rate_than_his_secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/13\/everyone_s_asking_does_obama_pay_a_lower_tax_rate_than_his_secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s Asking: Does Obama Pay a Lower Tax Rate Than His Secretary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Everybody is asking today if Obama\u2019s secretary is paying a higher income tax rate than he did. The Obama effective tax rate &#8212; well, not &#8220;effective&#8221;; the tax rate he paid &#8212; is 20.5%. It\u2019s 20.5% on an income of $789,000. So everybody\u2019s asking the burning question: Is Obama paying a lower income tax rate than his secretary is, like Warren Buffett is? We don\u2019t know. Nobody knows. But everybody\u2019s asking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-Buffett.jpg\"\/><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Janelle in Topeka, Kansas.  Welcome.  You\u2019re on Open Line Friday.  Great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, mega dittos, Rush, from God\u2019s country, Topeka, Kansas, midway USA.  I think president Barack Hussein Obama mmm, mmm, mmm, has got it all wrong on the <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15986\">Buffett Rule<\/a>.  I think the Buffett Rule allows everybody to take ten years to pay their taxes, and even with that surely Wesley Snipes and Willie Nelson would vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, you know, it\u2019s a good point.  Snipes found guilty &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  &#8212; in a Florida court.  Willie Nelson.  That\u2019s right, what she\u2019s talking about here, folks &#8212; thanks very much for that, Janelle.  What she\u2019s talking about out there is that Buffett owes a billion dollars in back taxes and has for a while, and he\u2019s fighting it.  Now, folks, anybody is allowed to fight the IRS if they think the IRS is overcharging.  That\u2019s fine and dandy, but don\u2019t then come along and allow your name to be put onto some phony tax increase bill when you\u2019re out there fighting what the IRS claims is what you owe.  It\u2019s a little hypocritical.  And so what Janelle here is saying is, the Buffett Rule is that you get ten years or more to pay your taxes, which is what\u2019s happening to Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Everybody is asking today if Obama\u2019s secretary is paying a higher income tax rate than he did. The Obama effective tax rate &#8212; well, not &#8220;effective&#8221;; the tax rate he paid &#8212; is 20.5%. It\u2019s 20.5% on an income of $789,000. So everybody\u2019s asking the burning question: Is Obama paying a lower income tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Everyone&#039;s Asking: Does Obama Pay a Lower Tax Rate Than His Secretary? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/13\/everyone_s_asking_does_obama_pay_a_lower_tax_rate_than_his_secretary\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Everyone&#039;s Asking: Does Obama Pay a Lower Tax Rate Than His Secretary? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Everybody is asking today if Obama\u2019s secretary is paying a higher income tax rate than he did. 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