Jun
28
The Government Should Take More Of Your Money
Filed Under Politics |
At least according to Warren Buffett…
Today’s Beautiful Rant highlights the words of an average citizen - Marcus L. Simmons, from Macon, Georgia. Mr. Simmons was responding to an article written in the British Times Online. The article explained how Warren Buffet, while speaking at a $5,000 a plate fund raising dinner for Hillary Clinton, lamented how unfair the US tax system is and advocated for greater socialistic governmental control.
The article titled: “Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary” states “ Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.” Mr. Buffet later went on to suggest that governmental redistribution of wealth was necessary and that “he was a Democrat because Republicans are more likely to think: “I’m making $80 million a year – God must have intended me to have a lower tax rate.”
Read the whole article here.
Mr. Simmons was astute enough to see through the liberal ideology and agenda that the Times was trying to pass off as sage advise from a mogul. More to his credit, Mr. Simmons was eloquent and succinct enough and sufficiently motivated to publish his thoughts by stating the following:
“Warren Buffett is welcome to pay as much in taxes as his conscience compels him to, but he’s being either disingenuous or downright hypocritical. The idea behind allowing folks with wealth to keep a great deal of their money is that they invest it, creating jobs and wealth for others. Buffett made his fortune by investing money that was not taxed, but he wants us to believe that OUR money is better off in the hands of the government? No thanks! I’d just as soon keep more of my money and try to parlay it into wealth for myself, just as he did. Good ol’ capitalism is a much more efficient and fair redistributor of income than any government could ever be. Does anyone think it’s a coincidence that government revenues are at an all-time high AFTER the recent tax cuts? The whole country does better when the wealthy invest their money instead of give it to the government to fritter away on some feel-good program whose only real purpose is to secure votes for liberal politicians.”
Congratulations to Marcus Simmons; well said. He sets a fine example for all of us.
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