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American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

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Jim DeMint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 2
Business Executive
Former United States Senator
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
James Warren Jim DeMint
James Warren DeMint
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