Buffett Rule

Election 2012, Iranian Style

Jess Coleman | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Class Warfare, Tax Rates, Income Inequality, Unequal Representation, Election 2012, Wealth Gap, Voter Turnout, Buffett Rule, Teen News

Historically, only about half the nation votes for the president every four years. That reality makes equal representation a far-fetched goal: How can everyone be represented when only half of us vote?

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Will Smith On Taxes: 'No Problem Paying Whatever I Need To Pay'

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.09.2012

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The Fresh Prince just joined the league of rich people who say they should be taxed more. Actor and 1990s hip-hop phenomenon Will Smith recently to...

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The Case for the Buffett Rule: Fairness for the Taxpayer

Jimmy Dahroug | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Taxes, Warren Buffett, Millionaires Tax, Buffett Rule, Capital Gains, Capital Gains Taxes, Politics News

Is it too much to ask that people making over one million dollars in annual income pay a tax rate comparable to middle income Americans? Why is there one set of rules for millionaires and a different set of rules for the rest of us?

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The Life Of Warren Buffett In One Giant Infographic

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.03.2012

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Berkshire Hathway CEO Warren Buffet's $44 billion net worth makes him the third richest man in the world, according to Forbes. But there's more to the...

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Stephen King: 'Tough Sh*t,' Raise Taxes On The Rich

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Shares, Robin Hood Tax, Taxes, Chris Christie, Video, Bands, Stephen King, Michael Bloomberg, Bush Era Tax Cuts, Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Tax Debate, Rich Taxes, Buffett Rule, Business News

Looks like the fight to raise taxes on rich people has found its latest ally -- and this one isn’t afraid to use a four letter word or two. Autho...

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My Year on Food Stamps

Wendy Fontaine | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Welfare, Department of Health and Human Services, Food Stamps, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, House Agriculture Committee, Buffett Rule, Impact News

I had worked as a newspaper reporter for more than a decade, interviewing presidential candidates and reality TV stars. I had a college degree and a retirement account. Never once had I thought I would need help with something as basic as buying food for my kid.

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The Buffett Rule

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Jimmy Buffett, 60 Minutes, President Obama, Warren Buffett, Steve Kroft, Parrot Heads, US Congress, Buffett Rule, Business News

The filibuster rule trumped the Buffett Rule and the people lost once again. So, it's out with the old Buffett Rule that is Warren-based. And, in with the new Buffett Rule, that is Jimmy-based.

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WATCH LIVE: HuffPost Q&A With White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Huffington Post sat down with White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer Tuesday for a live video discussion on the major topi...

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Both Sides Now: Reagan/Matalin on Their Biases, Ryan-Buffett, Polls, Tattoos

HuffPost Radio | Posted 04.22.2012

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Through the looking glass of their families and early years, Reagan/Matalin analyze Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind. Can Left & Right hear each other or be merely riders of reason on the elephant of intuition?

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Friday Talking Points -- A 4/20 Column

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.20.2012

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Four years ago, 178 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against H.R. 1113, which was introduced in the spirit of "celebrating the role of mothers in the United States" and "supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day." Once again, in case you missed it, 178 Republicans voted against it.

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House Passes Small Business Tax Break That Helps Wealthy

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A $46 billion tax break that would go disproportionately to the wealthy and add to the deficit passed the House of Representatives on Th...

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Obama and Romney on Buffett Rule - Both Right ... and Wrong

Lanny Davis | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Taxes, Obama Buffett Rule, Barack Obama, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Romney Buffett Rule, Millionaires Tax, Buffett Rule, Politics News

Romney is right to mock the Buffett Rule as more about politics than economic fairness, and Obama is right that even if it's a drop in the bucket, it's still worth doing. Both are wrong to make a big deal about the Buffett Rule as having a serious economic effect one way or the other.

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Obama Calls Warren Buffett To Wish Him Well

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama has called Nebraska billionaire investor Warren Buffett, a day after Buffett said he had bee...

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Five Political Lies We Must Expose to Save Our Children

Gary Shapiro | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Deficit, Cbo, Gary Shapiro, Warren Buffett, Cea, Newt Gingrich, Congressional Budget Office, Barack Obama, Buffett Rule, Politics News

Our nation is heading off a financial cliff, and both major political parties are in deceptive denial. It's time we as Americans put on our adult pants and started confronting the truth.

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White House Threatens Veto Of Tax Cut For The 'Fortunate'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the second major shot in Washington's ideological battle over taxes this week, the White House on Tuesday slammed a small-business ta...

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The Elvis Index: Why the Rich Should Pay a Lot More on Tax Day

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Tax Fairness, Gini Coefficient, Tax Justice, Income Inequity, Elvis Presley, Col. Tom Parker, Congress Buffett Rule, Obama Buffett Rule, Buffett Rule, Politics News

Too many of our leaders in Washington want to tell us that the only solution is for us to accept less and less -- less infrastructure, less education, less financial security -- while the rich continue to enjoy these low rates or even lower ones yet to come.

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Tax Day Doesn't Belong to the Tea Party Anymore

Mark Engler | Posted 04.17.2012

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This year, if you say "Tax Day" and "social movement," the Tea Party isn't necessarily the first thing that comes to mind. And if you go looking for a protest, you'll likely find folks protesting against the tax evaders of the top 1 percent.

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The World's Richest Company Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than You Do

Preeti Vissa | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Google, Taxes, Tax Shelters, Apple, Corporate Taxes, Tech News, Buffett Rule, Federal Income Tax Rate, Business News

That's more than the gross domestic product of Saudi Arabia, the world's richest oil economy, not to mention a bunch of other countries. And Apple paid a lower federal income tax rate last year than the average California schoolteacher.

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What's Fair? Five (or Six) Principles of Tax Fairness

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.17.2012

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The wealthy have been paying a larger share of federal income taxes not because their tax rates have gone up -- in fact, they've gone down. It's because they've been collecting the lion's share of the growth for decades.

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How Americans Would Prefer To Reduce The Deficit

Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012

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April 17 (Reuters) - Cutting government programs is favored as the way to reduce the U.S. budget deficit by more than twice as many Americans as tho...

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Let's Use Taxes to Put America to Work

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Taxes, Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure, Congress, Green Jobs, Environment, Warren Buffett, Jobs, Green Energy, Buffett Rule, Bush Tax Cuts, Tax Day, Unemployment, Tax Day 2012, Green News

Instead of giving the wealthiest Americans a free ride, why shouldn't we ask them to pay their fair share? That's the only way we are going to bring fairness to our tax system and make our nation stronger, healthier and more competitive.

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Buffett Rule Battle Begins With Vote Expected To Fail

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Both sides drew sharp partisan lines Monday over the Buffett Rule tax for millionaires, setting up what is almost certainly going to be ...

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Why a Fair Economy Is Not Incompatible With Growth But Essential to It

Robert Reich | Posted 04.16.2012

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What we should have learned over the last half century is that growth doesn't trickle down from the top. It percolates upward from working people who are adequately educated, healthy, sufficiently rewarded, and who feel they have a fair chance to make it in America.

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Dueling Tax Proposals Affecting Small Businesses, Millionaires May Be Doomed

Posted 04.17.2012

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By ALAN FRAM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The day before Americans' taxes were due, Senate Republicans defied President Barack Obama on Mond...

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Why Some Obamaites have Lost Faith... and Why They Shouldn't

Larry Hirsch | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: 2012 Election, Progressives, President Obama, Health Care Reform, American Economy, Buffett Rule, Politics News

President Obama may not have provided the exact change you wanted, but where would our country be without his accomplishments? Millions of Americans would be without health care, the unemployment rate would likely still be in double digits and we'd likely still be fighting in Iraq.

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