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When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like obsession on class warfare, a rich American paying an effective tax rate of only 15 percent is a scandal of the first order. Yes, this story is a scandal, but not the one that progressives think it is. READ MORE »