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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: J_F_Shepard8/15/2011 3:21:19 PM
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich By WARREN E. BUFFETT

Published: August 14, 2011 "While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors. "
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