For someone who complains that he doesn't pay enough taxes, Buffett sure takes advantage of all the "loopholes" available to him.
Yes he does...But if Obama and the Progressives have their day? Buffet has nowhere to RUN...
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For someone who complains that he doesn't pay enough taxes, Buffett sure takes advantage of all the "loopholes" available to him.
For someone who complains that he doesn't pay enough taxes, Buffett sure takes advantage of all the "loopholes" available to him.
There are some things I would love conservatives to explain.
For one, they have this bizarre idea that rich people should be given a bye on taxes.
People come to this country and make a fortune in ways they could never do in any other country on earth. Why do they just want to "squeeze" every cent they can get out of the country? Why not support the US, invest and nurture it so people can continue to "create wealth" over generations?
Instead, they move jobs to China or Mexico in search of "cheap labor" and hope to bring those products back here. Only people here don't have jobs to buy those products.
It's their "greed" that's killing the Golden Goose.
And the other?
Why this fetish for the gays? I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from.
I'd love actual liberals to explain not kicking you out of the club and burning your voter registration card with the threat of castration being the consequence of you trying to attain another.
Right...Without trying.For someone who complains that he doesn't pay enough taxes, Buffett sure takes advantage of all the "loopholes" available to him.
You didn't read it:
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes,
Did that help?
Our current tax rates are the lowest in 50 years. Add two Republican unpaid wars plus a 2.4 trillion dollar tax cut with more than 50% going to the top 1% plus a Republican drug bill that started off costing 1.3 trillion and I don't understand how Obama can be blamed for everything.
For someone who complains that he doesn't pay enough taxes, Buffett sure takes advantage of all the "loopholes" available to him.
You didn't read it:
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes,
Did that help?
Our current tax rates are the lowest in 50 years. Add two Republican unpaid wars plus a 2.4 trillion dollar tax cut with more than 50% going to the top 1% plus a Republican drug bill that started off costing 1.3 trillion and I don't understand how Obama can be blamed for everything.
There are some things I would love conservatives to explain.
For one, they have this bizarre idea that rich people should be given a bye on taxes.
People come to this country and make a fortune in ways they could never do in any other country on earth. Why do they just want to "squeeze" every cent they can get out of the country? Why not support the US, invest and nurture it so people can continue to "create wealth" over generations?
Instead, they move jobs to China or Mexico in search of "cheap labor" and hope to bring those products back here. Only people here don't have jobs to buy those products.
It's their "greed" that's killing the Golden Goose.
And the other?
Why this fetish for the gays? I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from.
You have a bizarre notion that the rich don't pay taxes.
The rest of your post is just left wing nut drivel.
Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.
Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If youre in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Alan Patricof, the founder of the US branch of Apax Partners, that US government policy had accentuated a disparity of wealth that hurt the economy by stifling opportunity and motivation.
Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, acknowledged in an interview yesterday that there were justified concerns about the huge profits generated by private equity firms and that he worried that income inequality was poisoning democracy. He also said that he would be voting for the Democrat candidate at the next election. Mr Blankfein is the highest-paid executive on Wall Street, earning $54 million last year.
Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary - Times Online
Now, Republicans will look at this and say, "No one pays 30%". Only, if you add state taxes and everything else, 30% of probably an understatement.
Then Republicans will say, "If those guys don't like making all that money, give it back", without bothering to really look at the currently broken system.
Most employment comes from small business NOT the super rich as Republicans, for some strange reason, would have you believe. Why Republicans work so hard against their own self interest is beyond me. I really don't get it.
As far as "gay rights" being "drivel" to Republicans, it's expected.
There are questions I'd like to ask conservatives who wish to make the world a better place in His name.
1. Is Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh the answer to every problem?
2. Why has any Republican Presidential candidate run as a fiscal conservative over the past 40 years?
3. What continent is Africa on?
4. When you get swept up to heaven during The Rapture, will you be nude or will you be wearing clothes?
5. We know that the Book of Revelations makes references to Obama. Is he identified allegorically or directly named?
There are questions I'd like to ask conservatives who wish to make the world a better place in His name.
1. Is Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh the answer to every problem?
2. Why has any Republican Presidential candidate run as a fiscal conservative over the past 40 years?
3. What continent is Africa on?
4. When you get swept up to heaven during The Rapture, will you be nude or will you be wearing clothes?
5. We know that the Book of Revelations makes references to Obama. Is he identified allegorically or directly named?
1. I think it's Glenn, not Glen
2. Republicans are Statists, hence the rise of the Tea Party. Bush41 was one of the most evil men on the planet.
3. What is your conceptual continuity?
4. Just read the part of "The Agony and Ecstasy" where a possible ancestor of mine had artists paint fig leafs over Michelangelo's "Last Judgment". Not good. Not good at all
5. Why does Obama's likeness appear on the Shroud of Turin?
Obama? Is that you?
You have a bizarre notion that the rich don't pay taxes.
The rest of your post is just left wing nut drivel.
Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.
Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Alan Patricof, the founder of the US branch of Apax Partners, that US government policy had accentuated a disparity of wealth that hurt the economy by stifling opportunity and motivation.
Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, acknowledged in an interview yesterday that there were justified concerns about the huge profits generated by private equity firms and that he worried that income inequality was “poisoning democracy”. He also said that he would be voting for the Democrat candidate at the next election. Mr Blankfein is the highest-paid executive on Wall Street, earning $54 million last year.
Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary - Times Online
Now, Republicans will look at this and say, "No one pays 30%". Only, if you add state taxes and everything else, 30% of probably an understatement.
Then Republicans will say, "If those guys don't like making all that money, give it back", without bothering to really look at the currently broken system.
Most employment comes from small business NOT the super rich as Republicans, for some strange reason, would have you believe. Why Republicans work so hard against their own self interest is beyond me. I really don't get it.
As far as "gay rights" being "drivel" to Republicans, it's expected.
rdean says:
Why this fetish for the gays? I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from.
Meister says:
You weren't talking about "gay rights", dean. You were talking left wing whacko nut drivel. Can you see the difference?
There are questions I'd like to ask conservatives who wish to make the world a better place in His name.
1. Is Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh the answer to every problem?
2. Why has any Republican Presidential candidate run as a fiscal conservative over the past 40 years?
3. What continent is Africa on?
4. When you get swept up to heaven during The Rapture, will you be nude or will you be wearing clothes?
5. We know that the Book of Revelations makes references to Obama. Is he identified allegorically or directly named?
1. I think it's Glenn, not Glen
2. Republicans are Statists, hence the rise of the Tea Party. Bush41 was one of the most evil men on the planet.
3. What is your conceptual continuity?
4. Just read the part of "The Agony and Ecstasy" where a possible ancestor of mine had artists paint fig leafs over Michelangelo's "Last Judgment". Not good. Not good at all
5. Why does Obama's likeness appear on the Shroud of Turin?
Obama? Is that you?
It's Reagan!
Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.
Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If youre in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Alan Patricof, the founder of the US branch of Apax Partners, that US government policy had accentuated a disparity of wealth that hurt the economy by stifling opportunity and motivation.
Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, acknowledged in an interview yesterday that there were justified concerns about the huge profits generated by private equity firms and that he worried that income inequality was poisoning democracy. He also said that he would be voting for the Democrat candidate at the next election. Mr Blankfein is the highest-paid executive on Wall Street, earning $54 million last year.
Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary - Times Online
Now, Republicans will look at this and say, "No one pays 30%". Only, if you add state taxes and everything else, 30% of probably an understatement.
Then Republicans will say, "If those guys don't like making all that money, give it back", without bothering to really look at the currently broken system.
Most employment comes from small business NOT the super rich as Republicans, for some strange reason, would have you believe. Why Republicans work so hard against their own self interest is beyond me. I really don't get it.
As far as "gay rights" being "drivel" to Republicans, it's expected.
rdean says:
Why this fetish for the gays? I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from.
Meister says:
You weren't talking about "gay rights", dean. You were talking left wing whacko nut drivel. Can you see the difference?
When you put it like that, uh, no.
I once wrote on this site that since the majority of Americans are white Christians, that means the majority of gays are white Christians since that's where they come from and white winger after white winger said, "You can't prove that" and "You are just making that up".
What can you say? Besides I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from. That's not a joke. They think they were "recruited" as children or abused. The only "evidence" to back that up comes from white wingnut sites that also say, gays can be "cured". Can blue eyes be "cured" or just "covered up".
There are some things I would love conservatives to explain.
For one, they have this bizarre idea that rich people should be given a bye on taxes.
People come to this country and make a fortune in ways they could never do in any other country on earth. Why do they just want to "squeeze" every cent they can get out of the country? Why not support the US, invest and nurture it so people can continue to "create wealth" over generations?
Instead, they move jobs to China or Mexico in search of "cheap labor" and hope to bring those products back here. Only people here don't have jobs to buy those products.
It's their "greed" that's killing the Golden Goose.
And the other?
Why this fetish for the gays? I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from.
There are some things I would love conservatives to explain.
For one, they have this bizarre idea that rich people should be given a bye on taxes.
People come to this country and make a fortune in ways they could never do in any other country on earth. Why do they just want to "squeeze" every cent they can get out of the country? Why not support the US, invest and nurture it so people can continue to "create wealth" over generations?
Instead, they move jobs to China or Mexico in search of "cheap labor" and hope to bring those products back here. Only people here don't have jobs to buy those products.
It's their "greed" that's killing the Golden Goose.
And the other?
Why this fetish for the gays? I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from.
You have a bizarre notion that the rich don't pay taxes.
The rest of your post is just left wing nut drivel.
Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.
Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If youre in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Alan Patricof, the founder of the US branch of Apax Partners, that US government policy had accentuated a disparity of wealth that hurt the economy by stifling opportunity and motivation.
Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, acknowledged in an interview yesterday that there were justified concerns about the huge profits generated by private equity firms and that he worried that income inequality was poisoning democracy. He also said that he would be voting for the Democrat candidate at the next election. Mr Blankfein is the highest-paid executive on Wall Street, earning $54 million last year.
Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary - Times Online
Now, Republicans will look at this and say, "No one pays 30%". Only, if you add state taxes and everything else, 30% of probably an understatement.
Then Republicans will say, "If those guys don't like making all that money, give it back", without bothering to really look at the currently broken system.
Most employment comes from small business NOT the super rich as Republicans, for some strange reason, would have you believe. Why Republicans work so hard against their own self interest is beyond me. I really don't get it.
As far as "gay rights" being "drivel" to Republicans, it's expected.
When you put it like that, uh, no.
I once wrote on this site that since the majority of Americans are white Christians, that means the majority of gays are white Christians since that's where they come from and white winger after white winger said, "You can't prove that" and "You are just making that up".
What can you say? Besides I suspect many Conservatives don't even know where gay people come from. That's not a joke. They think they were "recruited" as children or abused. The only "evidence" to back that up comes from white wingnut sites that also say, gays can be "cured". Can blue eyes be "cured" or just "covered up".
Stop creating the damn problems and pretending as though you are trying to fix it. Get government out of our lives, and there isn't an issue.
There are questions I'd like to ask conservatives who wish to make the world a better place in His name.