Alltop - Top New York Times News. Wasting Warren Buffett. But there will be no third-party candidate, so the only hope is getting Obama to raise his game.
To do that, the president needs to recognize just how badly he wasted Warren Buffett — using him for a two-week, wedge-issue sugar high. Obama got Buffett to endorse the “Buffett Rule” — a minimum tax rate of 30 percent for any individual who makes more than $1 million a year so that all millionaires have to pay a higher tax rate than their secretaries. The plan had no chance of passing, would have made only a small dent in the deficit and was rightly decried by experts as a gimmick that only diverted attention from what we really need: comprehensive tax reform that can substantially raise revenue in a fairer manner. The Buffett Rule has largely faded away. What a waste of Warren Buffett’s credibility. Greece as Victim.
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Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics. Mr. Kenneth Rogoff. Nouriel Roubini. Opinion articles and commentaries from the world’s top economists and geopolitical strategists - Project Syndicate.