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作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-8-15 21:17 标题: I like Warren

Stop coddling the super-rich: Buffett

August 15, 2011 08:07 AM ET

(Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett urged U.S. lawmakers to raise taxes on the country's super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments. |Full Article

作者: positiveattitud 时间: 2011-8-15 21:23

Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett urged U.S. lawmakers to raise taxes on the country's super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments.

"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice," The 80-year-old "Oracle of Omaha" wrote in an opinion article in The New York Times.

Buffett, one of the world's richest men and chairman of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc , said his federal tax bill last year was $6,938,744.

"That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income - and that's actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent," he said.

Lawmakers engaged in a partisan battle over spending and taxes for more than three months before agreeing on August 2 to raise the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling, avoiding a U.S. default.

"Americans are rapidly losing faith in the ability of Congress to deal with our country's fiscal problems. Only action that is immediate, real and very substantial will prevent that doubt from morphing into hopelessness," Buffett said.

Buffett said higher taxes for the rich will not discourage investment.

"I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain," he said

"People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off."

(Reporting by Santosh Nadgir; Editing by David Holmes)

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-8-15 22:00

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If only there were more billionaires like him and Bill Gates, we would all be richer.
Rupert Murdoch has never been known to donate any money except to politicians.

作者: positiveattitud 时间: 2011-8-15 22:48

StephenW 发表于 2011-8-15 22:00
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If only there were more billionaires like him and Bill Gates, we would ...

True~Some rich people are quite benign and beneficent, but others are not...
It would be great if all rich people are willing to help the poor, then the whole world is gonna make big changes.
But in the end, it's entirely up to them to decide how to deal with their wealth...
We can only hope but not force them to be benign and beneficent.

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-8-15 22:59

positiveattitud 发表于 2011-8-15 22:48
True~Some rich people are quite benign and beneficent, but others are not...
It would be great if ...

Ah....how can I argue against that

I can't do anything, but the government can tax them more. In the USA, the mega rich, like the Koch brothers, they use their money to make sure they pay as little tax as possible.

作者: positiveattitud 时间: 2011-8-15 23:06

StephenW 发表于 2011-8-15 22:59
Ah....how can I argue against that
I can't do anything, but the government can tax them more. In ...

You are still up

?What is the time in Australia?

作者: positiveattitud 时间: 2011-8-15 23:13

StephenW 发表于 2011-8-15 22:59
Ah....how can I argue against that
I can't do anything, but the government can tax them more. In ...

Many rich people pay very little taxes...It happens in China too...
They know how to avoid tax or sometimes they even evade tax...
And most of the time, they just get away...

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-8-15 23:28

positiveattitud 发表于 2011-8-15 23:06
You are still up ?What is the time in Australia?

Now is 1.26 am. This is one of the beauties of being retired - you can sleep in

作者: positiveattitud 时间: 2011-8-15 23:34

StephenW 发表于 2011-8-15 23:28
Now is 1.26 am. This is one of the beauties of being retired - you can sleep in.

Don't stay up too late~

I got to get up early in the morning. Night night~

作者: 搅拌子 时间: 2011-8-16 14:41

Rich people are always rich, because they know how to make money at anytime anywhere, contrarily, even the poor people can get some donation from the rich people, they are always the poor

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-8-16 15:36

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I agree with you, it is always easier to make money with money than without. We cannot make all the poor people rich, but at least collectively we must ensure everyone lives about a certain standard. Of course, at the same time, equal opportunities for all.

作者: interdetect 时间: 2011-8-16 15:57

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omg, so good English.

作者: 走遍四方 时间: 2011-8-16 16:32

作者: 搅拌子 时间: 2011-8-16 18:56

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That's right, but wealth is invariably grasped by the minorities, it's the natural rule!

作者: 搅拌子 时间: 2011-8-16 18:58

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Thanks a lot for your compliment, actually, I had had the CET-4 test three times

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