She raises a good point about people making say 200K-500K where in NYC isn't much at all. I've proposed this before- creating a whole new tax bracket for those over a cool million a year. Most of them voted for Obama knowing they were going to get socked with a tax increase and some, even Warren Buffet, think they pay too little in taxes.
Nobody is stopping Warren Buffet or anyone else who claims that they pay too little in taxes from sending a check payable to the United States Treasury to Washington, D.C. That they haven't says more about their true politics than anything else.
While the government may take their money, do they have a visible program for that?
I mean, Buffet is hardly greedy with his money, willing to drop 40 billion here or there for charity etc.
If you were a rich person who hypothetically believed in higher tax brackets [not that I do either], would you pay that amount anyways to the government? I'm not trying to make an argument about taxes but rather whether his lack of writing large checks to the Treasury proves anything about his character.
