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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (89538)	10/10/2008 3:46:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541912

If Buffet thinks that he should be taxed more - is that class warfare? If he personally wants to give more from the government, even through the tax system, let alone in any other way, that wouldn't be class warfare. But if he's arguing that more should be taken from wealthy people in general, and calling any reduction of what is taken, or even maintaining the current tax rates rather than increasing them, a "giveaway to the rich" then the statement at least resembles a mild form of class warfare (mild because it isn't directly violent, even if it is in effect calling for force or threat of force to be applied). As for some Christian calling non-Christians terrorist just because they don't have the same beliefs, well that is very offensive. I'm not sure that "class warfare" would be the proper term, but not fitting that term doesn't make it any less offensive. OTOH that isn't exactly the a typical statement from Christians, while the type of statement that I'm talking about is fairly common from the political left.