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To: LLCF who wrote (60992)	1/7/2013 11:39:14 PM
From: pcstel	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

In fact all sorts of people ACTUALLY THINK rates should be higher on those that can afford it!! No, Peter... they aren't just pretending!! LOL For someone whom claims they are exempt from mainstreams media influences, this one keeps regurgitating the left-wing media chants like they work for MSNBC. In reality, What we have had is a VERY FEW "Ultra Rich" people saying that they believe they should pay higher taxes. These VERY FEW (like Buffett and Gates) make a great deal of their income from Dividends that are subject to Long Term Capital Gains Rates instead of rates on"Earned Income". Left-Wing media and their puppets have perverted these "Statements by the very few Ultra Rich" into a continued stream of statements from the left-wing media claiming that "LOTS OF RICH PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK THEY SHOULD PAY HIGHER TAXES." But when you ask them for a list of the "lots of people".. They can actually produce very few which are typically Billionaires. Perhaps if Gates and Buffett were being taxed at the "Earned Income Rate", then they would have a different view? Of course "All sorts of people ACTUALLY THINK rates should be higher on those that can afford it. But, a large portion of those that ACTUALLY THINK rates should be higher on those that can afford it, believe they do not fall into the category of being able to afford it themselves. Heck, even this LLCF character turned out t be a "bean counter" claiming that it would be just "too expensive" in accounting fees to pay higher taxes. But you can keep dreaming that everyone who is for higher taxes are all hypocrites Everyone who is for higher taxes are not hypocrites, just those that believe that "they shouldn't be subject to pay more, or do not act on their wishes to pay a higher tax rate due to "accounting fees". And so it goes, PCSTEL

To: LLCF who wrote (60992)	1/8/2013 3:38:09 PM
From: Peter Dierks	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Thank you for proving my point: 1.) Hypocrisy* is the state of promoting or administering virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have and is also guilty of violating.* You advocate (promote) a higher tax rate than you pay. You do not live by the principles that you claim we should all live by. Thus you are a hypocrite. A classic example of a hypocrite is Warren Buffet. He claims we should all pay higher taxes. Yet his estate plan is to avoid the death tax and give nothing to the higher taxes he claims the little people should all have to pay. When you guys say we should pay higher taxes all I hear is chirping.