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Christie: Buffett Should ‘Write a Check and Shut Up’

Wiggen said:
Especially not on people making 375K to 1 million a year. Those poor folks are struggling mightily to make ends meet as it is! There ought to be a charity called 'Money for rich guys' that the rest of us could contribute to.
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Envy-your post is full of it
 
Wiggen said:
Well, obviously not you. But then you don't have to, do you?
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Actually I am rather frugal, as was my father before me and his father before him and so forth
 
TurtleDude said:
Actually I am rather frugal, as was my father before me and his father before him and so forth
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Especially when it comes to paying taxes. ;D
 
AdamT said:
Especially when it comes to paying taxes. ;D
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What was your tax bill? Did you refuse to take any deductions and pay way more than you had to? Or, did you expense every nickel you could think of and lower tax bill as much as possible?
 
apdst said:
What was your tax bill? Did you refuse to take any deductions and pay way more than you had to? Or, did you expense every nickel you could think of and lower tax bill as much as possible?
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Not familiar with the emoticons, eh?
 
AdamT said:
Especially when it comes to paying taxes. ;D
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that's a moronic throwaway line. I pay what i legally owe but I also note I pay far more than I should

And your rant is just pathetic
 
TurtleDude said:
Envy-your post is full of it
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I am envious as well, but I hope that those making that kind of money continue to make even more. Because when they do, they tend to invest, and create capital that could possibly one day make others rich, who then in turn continue to invest, and so on, and so forth....That is how this country became great.


j-mac
 
TurtleDude said:
You screwed up on your emoticons in your emotobabble there bub
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Did you need a code breaker to explain it to you without the picture? :lol:
 
j-mac said:
I am envious as well, but I hope that those making that kind of money continue to make even more. Because when they do, they tend to invest, and create capital that could possibly one day make others rich, who then in turn continue to invest, and so on, and so forth....That is how this country became great.


j-mac
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Not the Turtle. He's frugal. Turtledude Frugal the Fifth.
 
AdamT said:
Not the Turtle. He's frugal. Turtledude Frugal the Fifth.
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One has to guard one's wealth given how many parasites the dem party has created
 
AdamT said:
Not the Turtle. He's frugal. Turtledude Frugal the Fifth.
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Oh, I don't believe that....Being frugal, and investment ignorant are two very different things... If Turtle came up on the right opportunity I can almost bet that he would invest, just as you would. Money has NO ideology.

j-mac
 
j-mac said:
Oh, I don't believe that....Being frugal, and investment ignorant are two very different things... If Turtle came up on the right opportunity I can almost bet that he would invest, just as you would. Money has NO ideology.

j-mac
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Uh oh, now you're contradicting the conservative argument. Don't you know that people will stop investing if capital gains taxes are raised? Isn't that what happened when Reagan raised them to the same level as ordinary income?
 
Who the hell is he to tell someone what to do? Oh Wait! He is on the right so he is allowed to say just write a check. It is always how hypocritally funny those in politcs are.
 
This is just sad. Where are Buffett's donations? Just this morning on CNBC, he was lamenting how his company has too much cash... just a mere $30 billion. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans everywhere are pitching in what little they have while Buffett goes around demanding higher taxes on other people.

While lawmakers fight over how many trillions of dollars should be cut from the deficit, some Americans are taking debt reduction into their own hands, albeit with far fewer zeros.

So far this year, individuals have donated almost $2 million to a little-known Treasury fund to chip away miniscule pieces of the country’s crushing $14.3 trillion debt. That $2 million is about .0017 percent of the $2.1 billion the United States pays every day just on the interest of that debt.

“It’s a very, very, very, very tiny, tiny amount,” compared to entire amount of the debt, said Mckayla Braden, a spokeswoman for Bureau of Public Debt. “We’re borrowing billions every week. It’s just a tiny bit, a rounding error probably. But it means a lot to the people who are giving.”

Braden said that while donations most often come in the form of a personal check in a standard envelope, the bureau has received everything from a gold coin to nickels and dimes given by civics class students.

“More so it is just individuals who for some reason really feel they want to give more to their country,” Braden said.
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Donors Give $2 Million to Reduce Public Debt in ‘Very Tiny, Tiny’ Amounts - ABC News
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
This is just sad. Where are Buffett's donations? Just this morning on CNBC, he was lamenting how his company has too much cash... just a mere $30 billion. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans everywhere are pitching in what little they have while Buffett goes around demanding higher taxes on other people.



Donors Give $2 Million to Reduce Public Debt in ‘Very Tiny, Tiny’ Amounts - ABC News
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Our country is not run on voluntary donations, Buffet knows it, I know it and you know it. Nobody should pay more taxes than required by the law. Buffet knows it, I know it and you know it. :roll:
 
pbrauer said:
Our country is not run on voluntary donations, Buffet knows it, I know it and you know it. Nobody should pay more taxes than required by the law. Buffet knows it, I know it and you know it. :roll:
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No one is claiming we should run on our country on voluntary donations. This is an example of people giving money to a cause they find important, the public debt. If Buffett feels so passionately about it, where are his?

Nobody should pay more taxes than required by the law.
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If it's not required by law than it's not a tax. If people want to give more money to their country than they most definitely should. If you read the article you would see the reason the fund was setup was because a wealthy Texan left the federal government $20 million in her will. Talk about patriotic.
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
No one is claiming we should run on our country on voluntary donations. This is an example of people giving money to a cause they find important, the public debt. If Buffett feels so passionately about it, where are his?
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That is quite plainly not what it's about. It is obviously about tax policy.
 
AdamT said:
That is quite plainly not what it's about. It is obviously about tax policy.
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You are right, it is about tax policy.

Buffett doesn't think he pays enough taxes.

Why doesn't he just pay what he feels he should pay?
 
AdamT said:
That is quite plainly not what it's about. It is obviously about tax policy.
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Yes, Buffett has always been a liberal when it comes to tax policy, just read his biography. If Buffett wants to be used a political tool to advocate for higher taxes while bemoaning his own low tax rate, then he would be much more credible if he did what the Americans above were doing. Not to mention the hypocrisy of paying himself a lower salary than his secretary while using her higher tax rate as a talking point for higher taxes.
 
Blue_State said:
You are right, it is about tax policy.

Buffett doesn't think he pays enough taxes.

Why doesn't he just pay what he feels he should pay?
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His argument is that tax policy should change -- not that he personally should pay higher taxes than others who are similarly situated. Paying more than he's required to pay would not advance his argument. In fact it would detract from it as the argument implies that people will only pay what they are required to pay.
 
Deuce said:
Yes, people should not express opinions I disagree with. That's the America I want.
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Yeah, Christie needs to shutup. Uhhh, well .......oooops. :roll:
 
AdamT said:
Uh oh, now you're contradicting the conservative argument. Don't you know that people will stop investing if capital gains taxes are raised? Isn't that what happened when Reagan raised them to the same level as ordinary income?
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You know why he raised them?
 
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