Board 8 > I would vote for Warren Buffet if he ran for President, no questions asked.

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FreakinLincoln
08/15/11 10:09:00 AM
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Well, I mean of course there would be questions asked. I said that bit in the title as a figure of speech, a metaphor of sorts. You can ignore it if you want.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=1

He seems like the only guy with enough common sense and clout to be able to get anything done if he were to get elected into office. And besides, he's great at making money and not losing it, so I'm sure he'd do a much better job of balancing the budget than Obama or W. Bush did.

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KingButz
08/15/11 10:13:00 AM
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A nice tax system would only tax investments, not salary.

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baron von toast
08/15/11 10:31:00 AM
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Too many words. The American voter doesn't have time all of this critical thinking stuff. Please condense your rhetoric to 20 words or less, preferably in such a way that tells me why I'm smart and the people I disagree with are stupid.

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Sceptilesolarbeam
08/15/11 10:52:00 AM
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Hey, that stuff actually sounds sensible.

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FreakinLincoln
08/15/11 10:54:00 AM
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Weird, huh?

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KingButz
08/15/11 10:56:00 AM
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It's really sad how messed up that is, though. I'm all for putting more taxes on the mega-rich and taking some pressure of the wealthy middle class.

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metroid composite
08/15/11 11:04:00 AM
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Um, yeah, I'd support Warren Buffet.

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OmarsComin
08/15/11 11:10:00 AM
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rich people do this occasionally, I do believe the conservative talk radio/SmartMuffin response is something like "well if you want to pay more money to the government, just write a check yourself! don't punish all the other decent rich people by advocating more taxes for them!"
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XxDarkCrueltyxX
08/15/11 11:13:00 AM
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The upper echelon is taxed higher percentage wise, but the problem is really military spending and entitlements. If we could cut them both by 50 percent, which is really not unreasonable, we would wipe out the national debt over night.

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AlecTrevelyan006
08/15/11 11:22:00 AM
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From: XxDarkCrueltyxX | #009
The upper echelon is taxed higher percentage wise, but the problem is really military spending and entitlements. If we could cut them both by 50 percent, which is really not unreasonable, we would wipe out the national debt over night.


No, we wouldn't.

However, we might be able to get rid of the deficit and thus cut the debt in the long term.

Of course, the US Government will never get rid of its debt under this system, because if the US had no debt then there would be no control of the money supply. Whether that should be the case is debatable, but there will always be government debt to some degree.

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FreakinLincoln
08/15/11 5:51:00 PM
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http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-warren-buffett-is-right-on-taxes-2011-8

Boom, baby.

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paperwarior
08/15/11 5:54:00 PM
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I notice Obama can be pretty good in what he talks about, at least.

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baron von toast
08/15/11 5:57:00 PM
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"Warren Buffett" is such a mouthful. I'm going to call "The Buff" from now on.

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XIII_rocks
08/15/11 5:58:00 PM
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Totally misread this as Wade Barrett

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red sox 777
08/15/11 5:59:00 PM
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A nice tax system would only tax investments, not salary.

That would cripple the ability to make investments, because you can lose money on investments, while you can't have negative salary. Better to tax high salaries (you can have progressively higher brackets for 500k+, 1M+, and 10M+).

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Emporer_Kazbar
08/15/11 6:00:00 PM
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I've never been to the Warren Buffet. Is it any good? Does it have a salad bar?

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FreakinLincoln
08/15/11 6:01:00 PM
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It's sweeter than cream and cooler than sorbet, but it's high in monounsaturated fat. It's a trade-off but I think it's worth it.

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