Gates Joins Buffett Chorus to Tax the Rich More

Bill Gates (richest American) noted “taxes are going to have to go up” and thus he’d prefer that they “go up more on the rich than everyone else. That’s just justice. There needs to be “a sense of shared sacrifice,” he said, adding, “right now, I don’t feel like people like myself are paying as much as we should.” 
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A resurgence of the free thought movement of the 19th century is permeating the 2012 campaign — Rationalism.It is manifesting itself in an unprecedented manner within theRepublican Party. This controversial debate lies in what exactly isthe motivation driving this GOP phenonmenon. There is a good essay by Gene Callahan on The British philosopher and historian Michael Oakeshott’s rationalism in politics found here. […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !! The democrats can prove to all those watching of their leadership abilities, by utilizing something from the American game of football playbook — ball control … while running out the clock while they are ahead. At the end of the day– a win is a win, which in today’s devisive world is an acheivement.
[…] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !!  “10% thinking & 90+% Bush approval voting record…” Maverick? …the emperor has truly been stripped of his clothes” Is it the McCain age factor — 72, blatant deception or just complicit mental idleness and an inclination towards being a rubber stamp GOP yes man for the Bush White House failed policies that has now become McCain’s true legacy. The straight talk express is pure political shenanigan at best! Some say John Sidney McCain III is no more than an aged political myth past “his time” and whose life was predestined by his father Real Admiral John S. McCain Jr. and before that his grandfather Admiral John S. McCain Sr. So what happened to John Sidney McCain III ? Get the Invesco Field Obama acceptance speech transcript bundled with bonus event pictures at end of this article ! […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !!  Well the drama of political theater unfolded that we haven’t seen in a while, as the roll call vote for Barack Obama’s Democratic Party nomination, state after state honored Clinton’s bid for the White House. Some states yield unanimous votes by their delegation for Barack Obama… even some of those states were won by Clinton, until they got to New Mexico where there were by everyone count enough votes for the nomination to have the winning delegate count — but after much political fanfare New Mexico yielded to the state of Illinois where everyone thought that would be the appropriate end by casting the winning votes to break the delegate barrier for the nomination. Not to be. […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !!  Barack Obama delivered a major foreign policy speech in 30-minutes to 200,000 enthusiastic onlookers and supporters at the base of the “Victory Column” — the Siegess√§ule in the middle of a roundabout called the Grosser Stern in the Tiergarten Park — Berlin’s sprawling park in the center of the city. When a reporter asked the senator if he considered the address a campaign event, he said with a puzzled look: “As opposed to?” “It’s not a political rally,” he added. “Hopefully, it will be viewed as a substantive, articulation of the relationship I’d like to see between the United States and Europe. […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !!  I’m white, I’m entitled. Baited and slick’s’ slick because this pastor is Caucasian just daring racism folly. One would think Barack Obama would learn who he associates with running for President and all – NO way! What we see is what we get. I can hear the African American commentators now challenging anyone that has any opinion dissing the holier than thou Obama. If these shenanigans went on and originated from a Caucasian candidate toward blacks – there would be rioting in the black neighborhoods across America. […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !! When the Inspector General for the Defense Department recently released a 69-page audit to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform criticizing the ‘reckless at best’, accounting practices by the Pentagon of the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation that couldn’t rationally account for almost $15 Billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort. You would think the American People would be outraged and in the streets immediately protesting, or at the very least contacting their congressman demanding a better explanation of how $15 billion just vanished without a clue. […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !!  Attacks on him are really attacks on the black church, claims the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday. Wright continued his railing against anyone who questions his sermons as unpatriotic. This issue surfaces at the worst possible time for the African American Presidential hopeful following Obama’s glorified lecture to the American People on race trying to save his campaign and explain away his 20+ years of close relationship with Pastor Jeremiah Wright, while denouncing Pastor Wright’s remarks. […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !!  Illusion — a perception, as of visual stimuli (optical illusion), that represents what is perceived in a way different from the way it is in reality. Obama ? make NO mistake about him… he is a typical politican. Obama’s proposed polished image that he is above Washington conventional politics and ?Change we all can believe in? has been up-ended by the details of Obama’a own many mis-steps in his campaign and his now much criticized controversial past. […] Nobody provides more compelling background info for selected news !!  Poor judgement was exercised by Mark Penn, CEO of Burson-Marstellar Worldwide, a PR and lobbying firm, who was the Chief Strategist for the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign when he met with the newly contracted Government of Columbia’s Ambassador representing Burson-Marstellar over lobbying for a Columbian Free Trade Agreement with the United States — in which Hillary Clinton adamantly opposes. Mark Penn Last Friday, Penn apologized for his meeting with the Colombian ambassador Read entire article… | |