{"id":24102,"date":"2011-08-16T07:42:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24102"},"modified":"2011-08-16T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:42:38","slug":"warren-buffett-stop-coddling-the-super-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/warren-buffett-stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; Our leaders have asked for \u201cshared sacrifice.\u201d But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.<\/p>\n<p>While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as \u201ccarried interest,\u201d thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they\u2019d been long-term investors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/15\/opinion\/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=2&amp;src=me&amp;ref=general\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; Our leaders have asked for \u201cshared sacrifice.\u201d But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16022,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24104,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions\/24104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}