Posted on 04/11/2012 9:51:05 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Well, ok, since this has been floating around for a week or so now, we can finally get to the truth: the Buffet Rule is really more about spreading the wealth around. Just not that much wealth, according to the CBO, so it’s more symbolic of where we intend to go from here.
So anyway, the “Buffet Rule” was never about paying down the deficit? It was about making life “fair” all along?
The goal, Mr. Furman explained, is to establish a "a basic issue of tax fairness." ...
...On another front: all hell’s broken loose again with one of Jim Messina’s (another of Big Guy’s winners in the Big Brain category) Tweet Wars: This time Jimmy had Big Guy send out a new hashtag asking his Obots what they think the additional revenue from implementing the Buffet Rule could do. It was promptly Occupied by the R-words astroturf conservatives...
(Excerpt) Read more at michellesmirror.com ...
Have fun tweeting #BuffettRule like Sarah: "always skip the salad. it just takes up valuable meat-space #BuffettRule"
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