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To: Neeka who wrote (437613)	7/28/2011 11:59:50 AM
From: Berk	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793809

Really interesting comments about the rich and how they keep what they've got. To talk about raising taxes on the wealthy is comical, if you're really making it big you go to a tax attorney so you don't have to pay: "A highly complex and largely discrete set of laws and exemptions from laws has been put in place by those in the uppermost reaches of the U.S. financial system. It allows them to protect and increase their wealth and significantly affect the U.S. political and legislative processes. They have real power and real wealth. Ordinary citizens in the bottom 99.9% are largely not aware of these systems, do not understand how they work, are unlikely to participate in them," Not to be too cynical but it has been this way as long as I've been in the business world, there is always a way to use the law to avoid taxes. If in doubt, just think of Warren Buffett. ampedstatus.org