Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) on MSNBC Live speaks with millionaires who signed a letter asking president Obama to let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire. ______ Some liberal millionaires are putting their money where their mouths are: they are calling on Democrats to stay true to their word and allow the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest to expire next year. Joining the likes of Warren Buffett and George Soros, a calling themselves "patriotic millionaires" want President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to raise their taxes to levels before former President George W. Bush cut them in 2001. "We have done very well over the last several years," about 50 millionaires including several early Google Inc. executives and the founder of IAC's Ask.com, say in a letter to leaders. "We don't need more tax cuts, and we understand that cutting our taxes will increase the deficit and the debt burden carried by other taxpayers." Obama wants to let lower tax rates expire above the first $200000 of an individual's income but has been clashing with Republicans, and some in his own party, in Congress on a deal to prevent all taxpayers from seeing hikes on January 1. The group is asking policymakers to extend the higher rates for those making more than $1 million. New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer has suggested that benchmark, as have some others. "They felt comfortable speaking for themselves and their income bracket," a spokeswoman for the group said. The <b>...</b>Author: TheYoungTurks
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From Wikipedia: Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, journalist, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies. His writings and speeches describe a model of false flag terror operations by a rogue network in the military/intelligence sector working with moles in the private sector and in corporate media, and locates such contemporary false flag operations in a historical context stretching back in the English speaking world to at least the "gunpowder plot" in England in 1605. He also maintains that "The notion of anthropogenic global warming is a fraud. He also wrote the following books: -Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro? (Who Killed Aldo Moro?), a study commissioned by a member of the Italian government and published in Rome in 1978 The Larouchian, Partito Operaio Europeo www.movisol.org which broke open the affiliation of the Red Brigades with the neofascist lodge P2. -George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992) (co-authored with Anton Chaitkin, son of the lawyer who indicted Prescott Bush under the Trading with the -Enemy Act for collaboration with Nazi Germany.) Reprinted 2004, ISBN 0-930852-92-3. -Against Oligarchy (1996) -Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide through the Worst Financial Crisis in Human History (1999); updated edition, 2009. -9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA - Myth of the 21st Century (2005), Foreword <b>...</b>
How can aid workers fulfill their humanitarian mission when they themselves are perceived as legitimate targets?
