I have an answer for them: Just don't claim so much on your taxes. No one is forcing you to claim your deductions, You only do it because -- Surprise! -- it reduces your tax liability!
Oh, but you wouldn't want to do that, because it's too hard to give up the luxury items you worked so hard for, like a private jet, huge mansions, overseas properties, yachts ... shall I go on? Just keep preaching your lies - we're on to you!
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My point is - The interviews Christiane did with Gates, Buffet, et al had nothing to do with taxing *them* more - it's really about hitting the middle class with higher rates.
ABC’s Amanpour Trumpets ‘Tax Us More’ Liberal Democratic Quartet
At a time when the American mood has turned against excessive government spending, Christiane Amanpour devoted Sunday’s This Week to four liberal Democratic billionaires, though she failed to identify their political orientation, who want higher income tax rates on the wealthy.
Unmentioned during the pre-taped interviews with Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ted Turner and Tom Steyer revolving around their participation in “The Giving Pledge” – the promise to give away at least half their wealth: how they are free now to give all the money they want to the federal government.
Amanpour began by touting: “Warren Buffett has been practically begging the country, begging Congress to tax him more. In fact, many of the richest Americans like Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates and Ted Turner say that they should pay higher tax.” In between letting Buffett expound at length on why taxes should be hiked, she fretted to Bill Gates: “If people aren't going to pay for the services that they need, how are those services going to get funded, do you think?”
Later, she showcased Tom Steyer, founder of the San Francisco-based Farallon Capital Management hedge fund and, like Buffett, a big donor to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign when Steyer gave over $100,000 to Democrats, a fact Amanpour ignored which makes his support for higher taxes a lot less surprising and hardly noteworthy. “You said that you would be willing to have your taxes higher,” she cued him up.
A complementary ABC News.com article by Joshua Miller, posted Sunday morning, screamed:
