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tax free bonds: Original post by Ciaran John of Demand Media State and local governments around the United States issue municipal bonds and use the sale proceeds to finance government backed projects and to cover day-to-day governmental expenses. When the federal government introduced the tax system in 1913, the decision was made to make municipal bonds tax exempt. Nowadays, some high earners have to pay tax on…

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