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GoonSquad
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23 Jan 2012, 8:29 pm

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Warren Buffett, the billionaire calling for more taxes on the rich, said Mitt Romney's U.S. tax rate of about 15 percent reflects poor laws rather than failings by the candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

"It's the wrong policy to have," Buffett told Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu in an interview today. "He's not going to pay more than the law requires, and I don't fault him for that in the least. But I do fault a law that allows him and me earning enormous sums to pay overall federal taxes at a rate that's about half what the average person in my office pays."

Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) , supports Democratic President Barack Obama and said Congress needs to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to close the budget deficit. Romney has agreed to release his 2010 tax return tomorrow, under pressure from Republican opponents, after saying he pays about 15 percent. Romney co- founded Boston-based private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC.

"He makes his money the same way I make my money," Buffett said. "He makes money by moving around big bucks, not by straining his back or going to work and cleaning toilets or whatever it may be. He makes it shoving around money."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/buffett-b ... 00898.html

If you click through and read the user comments, you'll see there are quite a few people giving in to "the bitter politics of envy." :lol:

Is this gonna hurt Mit?



I think it already did in SC.


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23 Jan 2012, 11:30 pm

Well, to be fair to Mr. Buffet, he has a long track record of buying companies he can fix and then sell at a profit. Instead of buying companies he can raid and drive into the dirt.

Except that first company he bought. What was it called again?

Edit: Oh, and my theory about SC is that SC evangelicals believe the wild things their preachers said about mormons.