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Buffett: My plan was not the 'Buffett Rule'
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Posted on 09/30/2011 8:15:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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1 posted on 09/30/2011 8:15:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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>“It isn’t [my idea] to have the rich pay more taxes. It’s to have the ultra-rich pay more,” he said on Bloomberg Television<

Just when you thought he couldn’t come up with something dumber to say..


2 posted on 09/30/2011 8:19:56 AM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: Sub-Driver

The rules reduce my comment to a euphemism.
Oh my, he played with a poopie stick and got poopie on his little paws. Democrats are so stupid. How often does one have to be pooped on before they figure out who is not operating in their best interests.


3 posted on 09/30/2011 8:20:24 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Buffett thinks $20B will go “a long way” towards reducing the national debt? Apparently he’s almost as much of a math wiz as Obozo...


4 posted on 09/30/2011 8:20:45 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I've tried to think like a liberal, but I can't get my head far enough up my behind...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Buffet is a rent-seeking cashhole. He will get far more in favorable regulations than what he will have to pay in new taxes.


5 posted on 09/30/2011 8:22:02 AM PDT by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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Best bet is to simply seize all the assets of the “ultra rich” ~ wouldn’t end the deficit, but it’d put an end to this “tax the rich” nonsense ~ fur shur it’d shut Buffett up.


6 posted on 09/30/2011 8:23:39 AM PDT by muawiyah
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McConnell has “child like faith” to believe people will solve the deficit by “voluntarily sending checks,” Buffett said. Buffett indicated government involvement is necessary.

I see. So what do we call the blind insistence on more spending and more government as the solution to over-spending and over-growth in government?

7 posted on 09/30/2011 8:24:09 AM PDT by no-s (B.L.O.A.T. and every day...because some day soon they won't be making any more...for you.)
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Buffet thought "the people" would carry him around on their shoulders, cheering his pretend largess.

He didn't realize many of "the people" would see through his bullshat and start scrutinizing his lying statements.

He doesn't even pay the millions in taxes he already owes, and secretaries don't pay anywhere near as much (actual or percentage) in taxes as the rich do (when they actually pay them, unlike Buffet.)

Now he's walking backwards out of the room, hoping nobody notices him.

8 posted on 09/30/2011 8:29:15 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Anyone think Buffett and Soros would make an adorable Socialist couple?


9 posted on 09/30/2011 8:29:45 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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I could have sworn that muppet had said that the rich WANTED to pay more.

But now we cant really hold him to that.


10 posted on 09/30/2011 8:32:47 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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McConnell has “child like faith” to believe people will solve the deficit by “voluntarily sending checks,” Buffett said.

No, he just has the clear vision that the vast majority of rich people yelling to have taxes raised are 24 karat hypocrites who aren't interested in sending more of their own money to the government but rather taking other people's money. (and at the same time touting their life insurance products as a method of tax avoidance).

11 posted on 09/30/2011 8:33:18 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Compare "Delay is preferable to error" - Thomas Jefferson // "Pass this bill now!" - Barack Obama)
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Buffet stepping away from Obama’s plan is actually good news. Don’t like Buffet, but this is a big chip at the foundation of Obama’s rhetoric.


12 posted on 09/30/2011 8:35:01 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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Gee, Warren, what made you think that when you help put a Marxist asshat in power he is actually going to care about the details of what you think? Was Lenin loyal to Trotsky?
13 posted on 09/30/2011 8:35:54 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Buffett The Hypocrite Owes $1 Billion In Back Taxes

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Owes Taxes Going Back To 2002


14 posted on 09/30/2011 8:37:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama/Rangel/Pelosi Code of Ethics: DonÂ’t do as I do. Do as I say.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Buffett’s companies owe $1billion in back taxes. Maybe he should just pay his damn taxes and quit talking.


15 posted on 09/30/2011 8:39:30 AM PDT by hsalaw
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McConnell has “child like faith” to believe people will solve the deficit by “voluntarily sending checks,” Buffett said. Buffett indicated government involvement is necessary.

No, you moron. McConnell wants you to put your money where your mouth is and pony up the dough voluntarily.

You can't lead from behind.

16 posted on 09/30/2011 8:41:59 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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what a BSer.....he makes his money on capital gains...and the really rich don't pay much tax because of municipal bonds, so I've heard...

I don't care about the rich nor the ultra rich...I really don't....

if the rich and ultra rich like George Kaiser of Solyndra fame made their money by bilking the govt and the taxpayers, paying more tax is the least of my worries...they need to be JAILED...

but all tax increases eventually hit the middle class, which more or less IS the working class...

$20 billion is NOTHING when you're talking trillion dollar deficits...NOTHING AT ALL...

17 posted on 09/30/2011 8:42:55 AM PDT by cherry
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Buffett recants. What a surprise. He must be getting feedback from all his investors that he just stabbed in the back.


18 posted on 09/30/2011 8:46:20 AM PDT by Brownie63
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Don't hurt yourself back-peddaling so fast, Warren.

Now, write that nice little check to the feds and shut up.

19 posted on 09/30/2011 8:46:53 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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Sounds like Warren didn’t get the deal he desired to waive the billions of back taxes he owes to pimp for Hussein.


20 posted on 09/30/2011 8:49:33 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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