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To: bentway who wrote (778364)4/4/2014 2:27:59 AM
From: Broken_Clock  Respond to of 1573430
 
Our billionaires, such as Warren Buffet, believe they should be taxed at much higher rates. It's your (R) billionaires that prevent it from happening.

you're one ignorant dude
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Obama’s key advantage over the GOP field is the ability to collect bigger checks because he raises money for both his own campaign committee and for the Democratic National Committee, which will aid in his reelection effort.

As a result, Obama has brought in more money from employees of banks, hedge funds and other financial service companies than all of the GOP candidates combined, according to a Washington Post analysis of contribution data. The numbers show that Obama retains a persistent reservoir of support among Democratic financiers who have backed him since he was an underdog presidential candidate four years ago…

Obama has raised a total of $15.6 million from employees in the industry, according to the Post analysis. Nearly $12 million of that went to the DNC, the analysis shows.

Romney has raised less than half that much from the industry, while Texas Gov. Rick Perry brought in about $2 million. No other Republican candidate has raised more than $402,000 from the finance sector, which also includes insurance and real estate interests.

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To: bentway who wrote (778364)4/4/2014 2:31:20 AM
From: Broken_Clock  Respond to of 1573430
 
it's called hypocrisy, which is why Dem billionaires are laughing all the way to the bank. They have found that it is much easier to get their way with gullible Dems.
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Dem Leaders Backing Occupy Wall Street Receive More Wall St. Contributions Than Republicans

Oct. 25, 2011 9:47pm Tiffany Gabbay

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It might not come as a surprise that key Democratic leaders supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement have in fact all raised substantial funds from Wall Street. Heritage reportes that President Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Congressman Barney Frank have all raised significant funds from Wall Street.

OpenSecrets.org even reveals that the president has raised nearly $12 million in Wall Street donations for the Democratic National Committee. Heritage notes that the amount is more than all the Republican Presidential candidates combined have received from Wall Street.

Yet Obama supports the Occupy Wall Street movement, stating that their protests are a reflection of a “broad-based frustration about how our financial system works.” He has also adopted the term “99%” when talking about raising taxes.

Heritage adds:

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has also spoken favorably for the protesters, saying “I support the message to the establishment, whether it’s Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest, that change has to happen.” Where was this support when the Tea Party was taking on the political establishment, hmm?

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) parroted Pelosi by saying that these protests are ““symbolic of the frustration that middle class folks and working people feel that the wealthy always seem to have the wind at their backs.” She went on to say that, “[w]e understand their frustration, we applaud their activism and hopefully they’re going to help get the Republicans in Washington’s attention so we shift the Republican’s focus from just Barack Obama’s job, to everyone’s job,”

And finally, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), who has raked in more from Wall Street than Pelosi and Wasserman Schultz combined. Just after announcing his support for Occupy Wall Street, Congressman Frank headed to a fundraiser – with Wall Street bankers. How’s that for hypocrisy? Of course, he had an answer for that, saying: “If you take money from them, but you don’t vote [for] the things they want, how does that put you in conflict?”

With key Democrats consistently blasting the financial services industry while showing support for the Occupy movement, will the substantial Wall Street dollars now cease to flow into Democratic coffers?



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Buffett is doing everything he possibly can to keep his estate out of the hands of tax collectors. Even to the point of Turning it over to gates. He gas flatly stated he believes it is better for HIM to give to gates. The REST of us should just pay taxes, but not him.



To: bentway who wrote (778364)4/8/2014 7:03:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573430
 
Bentway,
Our billionaires, such as Warren Buffet, believe they should be taxed at much higher rates.

So to you, it's OK that Buffet has his billions as long as he "believes" he should be taxed more?

Come on, stop lying to yourself. You can raise tax rates on dividends and long-term cap gains to 50%, and Buffet would still be much, much richer than the poor and middle class he claims he's trying to help.

Besides, Buffet still believes private charity is a better vehicle for helping people than government, or else he would have donated his wealth to Obama instead of the Gates foundation.

Watch what they do, not what they say or "believe."

Tenchusatsu