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Hmm: 60 Percent of Americans Support “Buffett Rule”

RAY USA Wrote: Apr 14, 2012 8:24 PM

McGovern: Good point about Buffett and the estate tax. Liberals advocating tax increases never plan to pay the taxes themselves. Buffett will employ a battery of accountants and a platoon of lawyers to fight any taxes, just as he is currently fighting the IRS over 500 million dollars. Another example is Mass. senator Kerry who moved his yacht to Rhode Island to avoid taxes on yachts in Mass. Then we have Treas. Sec. Geithner who only paid his taxes after he was nominated by Obama. For these liberals taxes are for "the little people".

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Patriotic Liberal Wrote: Apr 15, 2012 9:35 AM

phew. you are confused. Yeah, sure. The plutocratic cranks that run the red states and damn near run America are "liberals." Try to get out a little more, son.

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Hmm: 60 Percent of Americans Support “Buffett Rule”

For weeks President Obama has traveled the country delivering speech after speech asserting that if implemented, the so-called “Buffett Rule” would “stabilize” our national debt over the next ten years. In reality, however, it would do almost nothing to solve our lingering budget woes or pay off our national debt. Nevertheless, his unrelenting tax-the-rich mantra seems to be resonating with voters. According to the latest Gallup poll, 6 in 10 Americans support the Buffett rule – named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett – a policy that would impose a 30...

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