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Shoulda read the thread Hugh. Show me where Buffett mentioned his secretary(hint: no one has and I cannot find it either). So, the second sentence of your argument has already failed a basic fact check. ALso, you do not seem to understand what Buffett is actually saying, which is about effective tax rates. Might look into that.
Receptionist/secretary, janitor/cleaning lady
Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary - Times Online
Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
Taxing people on the grounds of morality - gotta love it!