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Top 10 Quotes

6. Taxing the 1%

By Frances RomeroWednesday, Dec. 07, 2011
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"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress."

—Warren Buffett, investor and world's third richest person, proposing a higher tax rate for the superrich (New York Times)

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