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‘Class warfare’ could stick wealthy with higher taxes

Class warfare is likely to be a major theme of the 2012 election, with bottom-line consequences for financial advisers' affluent clients.

Class warfare is likely to be a major theme of the 2012 election, with bottom-line consequences for financial advisers' affluent clients.

In a speech two weeks ago in Osawatomie, Kan., President Barack Obama echoed the anti-big-business spirit of Theodore Roosevelt, who more than a century a

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