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To: 10thAmendmentGuy
Right. He will provide work for various tradesmen for some time.
39 posted on 08/21/2011 3:42:27 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
This is exactly what Warren Buffett should be doing, for example, instead of calling for marginal tax rates to be raised. These are taxes that he won't pay anyway, because most of his income is going to charitable trusts or tax-exempt bonds. If Buffett really cares about the poor, which he purports to, then why doesn't he build some houses for homeless people? He can calculate the money he would have owed the federal government after his proposed income tax increases, and arrange the construction of houses for homeless people. Or if he wants to improve education, he can volunteer to pay for the private school or college tuition of young people that cannot afford it.

This is not what Buffett wants to do, however. He wants to pretend that he actually cares because he knows that even if most of his income was in fact subject to federal income taxes, that Congress isn't going to pass any tax increases right now. Thus, Buffett gets to pontificate to the NY Times about how much he cares for the plight of the poor and the unfortunate, while simultaneously doing nothing to help alleviate their plight.

I don't like Romney. I think he is a RINO of the first order, but at least he is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to stimulating the economy.

40 posted on 08/21/2011 3:51:23 PM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy
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