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Well, almost the same birthday.
According to Catherine Rampell at the Economix blog, the first tax on income was signed by none other than Abraham Lincoln on August 5, 1861, to help pay for Civil War costs.
I don't know what time of day Obama was born, but since it was in Hawaii, there's a good chance that his August 4 birthday was August 5 in the Eastern Time Zone.
More than this: Obama was born in 1961, so he was born on the 100th anniversary of the income tax!
So how did Obama celebrate?
Allahpundit sums up our tax-hike-loving President's birthday best, commenting on the reports that the President "led a huge Conga line around the East Room":
Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Hillary were also there but I’m going to assume they weren’t part of the conga because (a) the thought is aesthetically terrifying and (b) the reality of the entire Democratic leadership cuttin’ loose amid economic disaster and getting a free pass from the media gives me the shakes. Alternate-reality headline: “BUSH CONGAS WHILE DOW DOES THE LIMBO.” All I’ll say in defense of what ended up being Obama’s fifth birthday event this week is that, if any private citizen had had a run as bad as his has been this year, they’d need whiskey and horse tranquilizers to dull the pain. Living 24/7 under the microscope, The One’s stuck with conga lines and Tom Hanks instead. I almost feel bad for him.
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