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He's a cruel hoax. He wants to see the rich get taxed more so that his businesses can increase profits! That's what it's all about, he wants to HELP the shrinking middle class by stealing from the rich. After all, Berkshire Hathaway owns businesses that cater to the middle class (Coca Cola, carpeting, insurance, banking, housing etc.. LINKS TO BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY SUB. COMPANIES)
What do you think?
I don't have a problem with Buffett. I think he just fails to realize that increasing taxes on someone making 250k is nowhere near the same on raising taxes on someone like him who makes billions a year.
He said lower taxes for middle class and upper middle class. That includes 250k.
I agree with him on this and I think if I were to answer the OP's question honestly, he recognizes that wage suppression sustained too long for the benefit of the top 5% have to get spring released in an orderly fashion or wild rates of high taxation for top 5% becomes inevitable. Peoples faith in the system is strained very hard. I don't think GOP can really see what hounds of hell they unleashed with economic policy.
I don't have a problem with Buffett. I think he just fails to realize that increasing taxes on someone making 250k is nowhere near the same on raising taxes on someone like him who makes billions a year.
It evens out though if you think about it. Buffett pays TONS of taxes, even if he only pays a 15% tax rate. But we really shouldn't be treating someone making $100 Million a year different than someone making $100k a year, should we?
It evens out though if you think about it. Buffett pays TONS of taxes, even if he only pays a 15% tax rate. But we really shouldn't be treating someone making $100 Million a year different than someone making $100k a year, should we?
No, and I'm a proponent for flat-tax. But for him to do interviews saying that I should pay higher taxes because I make in a year what he makes in like...a day...is something that unsettles me.
The only real problem I have with him is he's become the face of tax hikes. All the extreme leftists point to him and go "Well Warren wants to pay higher taxes, and he says you should, too!" without realizing that he's in a whole other world.
He's like that girlfriend who starts crap with some dude in a bar and then tells him "My boyfriend will kick your ass". He just invites fists of fury.
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No, and I'm a proponent for flat-tax. But for him to do interviews saying that I should pay higher taxes because I make in a year what he makes in like...a day...is something that unsettles me.
The only real problem I have with him is he's become the face of tax hikes. All the extreme leftists point to him and go "Well Warren wants to pay higher taxes, and he says you should, too!" without realizing that he's in a whole other world.
He's like that girlfriend who starts crap with some dude in a bar and then tells him "My boyfriend will kick your ass". He just invites fists of fury.
If you pay in a year what he pays in a day, you'd be broke.
Me, too.
Your reasoning is flawed. He is not like you or me. Hasn't been....for decades.
If you pay in a year what he pays in a day, you'd be broke.
Me, too.
Your reasoning is flawed. He is not like you or me. Hasn't been....for decades.
I said MAKE, not pay.
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