In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning - The New York Times
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Just for the record - voici l’authentique source de la phrase notoire du milliardaire Warren Buffet à propos de la lutte des classes. Il parle d’une guerre des classes.
Your Money | Everybody’s Business
By BEN STEIN NOV. 26, 2006
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Mr. Buffett, with immense income from dividends and capital gains, paid far, far less as a fraction of his income than the secretaries or the clerks or anyone else in his office. Further, in conversation it came up that Mr. Buffett doesn’t use any tax planning at all. He just pays as the Internal Revenue Code requires. “How can this be fair?” he asked of how little he pays relative to his employees. “How can this be right?”
Even though I agreed with him, I warned that whenever someone tried to raise the issue, he or she was accused of fomenting class warfare.
“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
This conversation keeps coming back to mind because, in the last couple of weeks, I have been on one television panel after another, talking about how questionable it is that the country is enjoying what economists call full employment while we are still running a federal budget deficit of roughly $434 billion for fiscal 2006 (not counting off-budget items like Social Security) and economists forecast that it will grow to $567 billion in fiscal 2010.
When I mentioned on these panels that we should consider all options for closing this gap — including raising taxes, particularly for the wealthiest people — I was met with several arguments by people who call themselves conservatives and free marketers.
One argument was that the mere suggestion constituted class warfare. I think Mr. Buffett answered that one.
On connaît la phrase. On ignore généralement sa signification. Warrent Buffet dit :
Puisque c’est moi qui le dit, c’est O.K. J’ai une conscience sociale quand même. Je peux me la permettre puisque je suis assez riche pour.
Par contre si un pauvre socialo ose revendiquer une réforme des impôt avec l’intention de faire payer plus les riches, c’est une déclaration de guerre contre les gens de ma classe.
On le savait déjà : Quand deux disent la même phrase elle n’exprime pas la même idée.