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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Sdgla who wrote (16526)4/9/2010 4:05:04 PM
From: John Koligman  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Actually I'm more pissed off at people like these guys paying a 15% carried interest tax rate on billions of income....

"Are you OK with 50% of the voting population not paying any taxes ?"

To: Tim Fowler who wrote (13475) 2/18/2010 2:32:11 PM
From: John Koligman 3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 16526

"The wealth was not handed out to them by government fiat, they either created it themselves, helped others to create it, and/or inherited it from people who did those things."

Tim, as you so 'eloquently say' these people DID do GREAT things! They shorted the mortgage market, and then got additional trillions as the government bailed out many of their firms. LOL!!

April 16, 2008 Top Hedge Fund Earners for 2007
From Alpha magazine:

1 John Paulson Paulson & Co. $3.7 billion
2 George Soros Soros Fund Management $2.9 billion
3 James Simons Renaissance Technologies Corp. $2.8 billion
4 Philip Falcone Harbinger Capital Partners $1.7 billion
5 Kenneth Griffin Citadel Investment Group $1.5 billion
6 Steven Cohen SAC Capital Advisors $900 million
7 Timothy Barakett Atticus Capital $750 million
8 Stephen Mandel Jr. Lone Pine Capital $710 million
9 John Griffin Blue Ridge Capital $625 million
10 O. Andreas Halvorsen Viking Global Investors $520 million

Of course, that's pre-tax.
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