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Timothy Geithner
stated on June 24, 2011 in a speech at Dartmouth College:

For people in the top 1 percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it’s been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money."

By Jeffrey Good • July 12, 2011