In response to national debate on wealth
disparity and Warren
Buffett’s call to stop coddling the rich, Protestants for the Common Good board
member, Nancy Brandt, shares the following thoughts:
Those against
tax fairness at the federal level have proposed an answer to Warren Buffett’s
rule that his effective tax rate should not be lower than that of the people
who work for him. They have introduced H.R. 3099,
Buffett Rule Act of 2011, which allows people like Warren Buffett to donate
their taxes to the federal government.
That is
superficially clever, but it begs the question and proposes a substitute for
what really should take place.
Our problems
will never be solved without systemic change in the tax code. The
Governmental tax system does not need charity from Warren Buffett or anyone
else; it needs fairness built into it: that would be justice.
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