Thread: Tax the Wealthy

If one of the wealthiest men in the world says this then who's to say he's wrong...


Warren Buffett
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Estates below $2 million are now exempt from federal estate taxes. How much do you think should be exempt?

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• It's fine as is
• The estate tax should be repealed

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Warren Buffett has said it before and he's likely to say it again to Congress on Wednesday: He thinks the heirs of the wealthy should be taxed on their inheritance.
Buffett, one of the world's richest men and now its biggest philanthropist, has been an outspoken critic of efforts to repeal the estate tax and is scheduled to testify at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on how current law affects estate tax planning.
Estates worth up to $2 million this year and next will be exempt from federal estate tax, and portions of an estate above that amount would be taxed at 45 percent.

Buffett: Tax my kin, please - Nov. 13, 2007

He's more than welcome to give every penny to the government voluntarily. Something I believe he has yet to do.

Originally Posted by freckles

He's more than welcome to give every penny to the government voluntarily. Something I believe he has yet to do.

LOL you have such a Coulterish way of looking at things...

Yes, it is called giving to charity. Evil, I know.

Originally Posted by freckles

Yes, it is called giving to charity. Evil, I know.

Thats so benevolent of you, but charities only take care of there own agendas, and when they are out of money they do no one any good.

Tax everyone equally or noone at all. Nobody should get special treatment, seeing as we are all created equal.

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

Tax everyone equally or noone at all. Nobody should get special treatment, seeing as we are all created equal.

I found myself almost agreeing with you then I came to my senses...what, to you, is equal...

Why would any true American call to add additional taxes to her fellow people.

How is taxing an Inheritance that has previously been taxed, fair? The problem is that Dems will do anything to increase the overall amount of taxes collected so they can go on spending every dime on programs that keep the majority of Americans dependant on the "System". Then the fun begins when they attempt to pass off their wrong-doings as "For" the people, when in truth, their programs do nothing but teach apathetic dependant behavior.

It's called slavery.

Originally Posted by Acebass

I found myself almost agreeing with you then I came to my senses...what, to you, is equal...

What to you is equal?

Originally Posted by Babylon

What to you is equal?

I asked first...