Warren Buffett: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich!

raising capital gains is durab IMO because it eats into the much smaller margins of much smaller investors. You want to tax the rich, tax them on their total income regardless of its source.
 
Not at all. The argument comes from 'they make tons of money by living off the work of their ancestors, we should tax him more because they don't do any work!'

I don't agree with that.
 
Refusing the draft means you lose your freedom in that jail cell. Another symptom of slavery to the state.
I believe I already stated an answer. The answer is that rights only exist as long as there is sufficient force to keep them in effect.

I suppose I could clarify that in saying that rights under the state only exist as long as you have the ability to enforce them. Its kind of the problem with vesting power in a state that declares itself to be the highest power and grants itself the ability to strip rights from the individual.
 
Okay, I read the summary (no sound on my computer). He's discussing discrepancies in depreciable lives of certain vehicles and according to him, it's nonsensical.

I agree, I guess, although you could argue that some vehicles probably do have shorter useful lives than others but in terms of the tax code, I have to imagine that the eligible life is more determined by special interest than it is any practical concern.
 
how are any of these people acting on principal? in both examples (buffett and medicare) people are in favour of a policy that would be against their best interests. being hypocritical would be being in favour of paying higher taxes and then not paying them.
 
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