Betsy Hart: Can progressives spend your money better?

By Betsy Hart

Scripps Howard News Service

Published: Sunday, Sept. 30 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

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The White House website says this in explaining the "Buffett Rule," an initiative that would obligate anyone making at least $1 million a year to an effective tax rate of at least 30 percent: "Anyone who does well for themselves should do their fair share in return, so that more people have the opportunity to get ahead — not just a few."

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Kent C. DeForrest

Provo, UT

Can Betsy Hart seriously believe what she wrote? Let's start here:

"Such an orientation recognizes that wealth actually belongs to those who create it."

Hello . . . Who actually creates the wealth of Exxon, or More..

1:33 p.m. Sept. 30, 2012
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Eric Samuelsen

Provo, UT

Ah, yes, more massive historical ignorance. Sorry, but lowering taxes for rich folks does not result in more federal revenue.

2:29 p.m. Sept. 30, 2012
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Eric Samuelsen

Provo, UT

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While I certainly congratulate you for reading Forbes Magazine, Barack Obama is not a Fabian socialist. I wonder why conservatives trying to define the President have to find some timey, now-discredited philosophy, like Fabian socialism, More..

2:51 p.m. Sept. 30, 2012
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