{"id":12013,"date":"2012-01-31T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12013"},"modified":"2012-01-31T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:02:38","slug":"about-that-buffett-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12013","title":{"rendered":"About That Buffett Rule&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Robertson on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/media\/player\/index.aspx?s=\/archive\/club\/700Club013112_WS&amp;t=k&amp;search=700clubepisodes\">700 Club<\/a>\u00a0revealed some numbers his research people came up with\u00a0regarding the taxes of Warren Buffett and Warren Buffett&#8217;s secretary. They are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Warren Buffett&#8217;s 2010 Taxes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Adjusted Gross Income\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $62.9 million<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Taxable Income\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$39.8 million<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Income Taxes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$6.9 million<\/p>\n<p>Warren Buffett&#8217;s secretary in 2010<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Forbes Magazine estimated her income at somewhere around $200,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Her estimated tax burden was approximately\u00a0$70,000 or slightly higher<\/p>\n<p>A significant amount of Mr. Buffett&#8217;s income came from sources that the government had already taxes at 35% (corporate taxes). There is no reason to tax that money again. Mr. Buffett&#8217;s secretary did not pay more in taxes than he did. That is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=cc053ff8-767f-4798-848b-1f55e4ad9812\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Robertson on the 700 Club\u00a0revealed some numbers his research people came up with\u00a0regarding the taxes of Warren Buffett and Warren Buffett&#8217;s secretary. They are as follows: Warren Buffett&#8217;s 2010 Taxes: Adjusted Gross Income\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $62.9 million Taxable Income\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0$39.8 million Income &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1948,350,542,1351,280,2013,277,1949,2014],"class_list":["post-12013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buffett-rule","tag-forbes","tag-income-tax","tag-pat-robertson","tag-tax","tag-taxable-income","tag-warren-buffett","tag-warren-buffetts-secretary","tag-warren-buffetts-secretarys-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12017,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}