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'Marketplace' Report: AMT Freeze

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Published December 20, 2007 at 1:00 PM EST

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Congress has voted to freeze the alternative minimum tax. Created in the '60s to keep the wealthy from avoiding taxes the tax has never been adjusted for inflation. Marketplace's Janet Babin discusses how the tax has been increasingly hitting the middle class.