Sherrod Brown’s Chevy Senate campaign commercial
posted at 8:12 pm on November 2, 2012 by Mary Katharine Ham
BOWLING GREEN, OH —On the airwaves in Ohio, brought to you by the party that reminds you at every turn how deeply concerned it is about corporatism:
While furrowing their brows over how involvement by corporations is hastening the fall of our election system, Democrats bring you a Senate ad that’s even more cloying and obvious than those clumsy product placements in primetime shows where your leads are engaging in witty banter with mild sexual tension until the dashboard inexplicably dings and the male lead points out how the new computerized console lets you know when you’re following too closely and the female lead nods approvingly before shifting back to banter and expository case details.
Brown released the ad some time ago, but I hadn’t seen it until I got on the ground here. If only Josh Mandel had had $60 billion in other people’s money to throw at a iconic American corporation. And, oops, the wheels aren’t made in Ohio.
A good read from Tim Carney is worth reprising here, now that all over the country, corporatism dressed up for Halloween as populism.
Mandel, the state’s treasurer, has a new ad out in the closing days of the election: “Integrity”
The RCP average puts Brown up five.
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Getting really tired of Buffett talking about the need to raise taxes on more people, while he sits on about a billion dollars of back taxes.
If I had my druthers, any time Buffett started in on his “raise taxes on the wealthy,” he would be immediately met with, “pay your taxes before you talk about what I should pay. Until then, shut up.”
tom on November 28, 2012 at 7:19 PM
You are wrongly equating different scenarios and then asking ‘Yes or No?’.
Also both in the orginal post and in your comment the ‘intent’ of the taxes is raised.
Income tax is intended to raise revenue. The intent is the same at 35% or 39%.
What you are arguing is that an investor will lose the incentive to invest and seek profit at the higher bracket.
What will he/she alternately do here?
verbaluce on November 28, 2012 at 7:20 PM
Exactly.
Hey Warren… does your company still owe about a billion dollars in back taxes? Thought so. Shut up.
Hill60 on November 28, 2012 at 7:25 PM
Per Rush today:
“But you don’t see Buffett, you don’t see any rich guys proposing a wealth tax. You see them proposing an income tax increase, which is designed to make sure that people keep less and less of what they earn so they become less and less likely to amass and accrue wealth. They’ve got theirs.”
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And he’s correct.
diogenes on November 28, 2012 at 7:25 PM
Hey Warren. Know what would make me happy? If Berkshire Hathaway would pay all their back taxes.
Hill60 on November 28, 2012 at 7:26 PM
Let’s review. You said:
I said – “intent is irrelevent”.
Why do you refuse to answer a simple question? (rhetorical question – you’re a lib so you can’t/won’t answer straight questions)
When taxes are increased on a particular product or activity, is consumption of said product or participation in said activity reduced or not? Simple yes or no.
The intent is irrelevant – does this happen or not?
Since you don’t seem to understand the economics involved, I can try to explain it for you, but I can’t comprehend it for you.
If the taxes go up for any particular activity – capital gains, dividends, wage income, etc, the wealthy will find ways to circumvent those increased taxes. They may invest less, or they may invest more in tax free bonds or other tax shelters, or they may invest more overseas, or they may defer earnings in some way – hoping eventually the rates will change again. But they will find a way to get out of paying those taxes. That’s what they pay their lawyers and accountants for. Why do you think your hero Buffet has been paying his lawyers to fight the IRS over the last 10 years of taxes on Berkshire-Hathaway? He’s the ultimate “do as I say, not as I do” hypocrit – as are nearly all liberals.
dentarthurdent on November 28, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Go read Erika’s latest thread.
Maybe you’ll learn something.
dentarthurdent on November 28, 2012 at 8:23 PM
I’d also like to see a comparison of what he pays prior to the tax increase and then after.
hawkdriver on November 28, 2012 at 8:25 PM
You know what would boost my morale? Seeing Warren Buffet reduced to poverty al la the Duke brothers in Trading Places. I would love to hear that old geezer shouting “Turn the machines back on!!!”
RDH on November 28, 2012 at 8:49 PM
This fool should pay his back taxes first before he starts screaming to raise it on others. Why do people not bring this up during the interviews?
watertown on November 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM
Because the media is in charge of the microphone and calling him out on his taxes doesn’t support the narrative.
hawkdriver on November 28, 2012 at 9:04 PM
It would have a great effect in terms of my morale if a falling Lear jet were to land on his head.
S. D. on November 28, 2012 at 9:24 PM
Taxes should only be for the Outer Party Members-not the Proles nor the Inner Party Members.
Dr. ZhivBlago on November 28, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Pay up or shut up, Warren.
talkingpoints on November 28, 2012 at 10:24 PM
Hey Warren, you old fool…SHUT THE F*CK UP!
Like others have stated here…PUT UP or SHUT UP!
Gothguy on November 28, 2012 at 10:33 PM
The sooner he passes on the better. Just know that WB only ever advocates for his personal interests — yours are of no interest beyond the question of whether he can make money from it.
AH_C on November 29, 2012 at 12:06 AM
Hey Warren, let’s start by sticking it to Susan Rice who has a net worth between 26 and 46 million.
Jasper61 on November 29, 2012 at 1:18 AM
It would be GREAT for my morale if every time some rich knucklehead called for higher taxes 50% of their wealth were stripped away. Do it again, lose another 50%… until they reach the poverty line.
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RalphyBoy on November 29, 2012 at 10:17 AM
There is a difference between WEALTH and INCOME. Wealth is something you have and income is what you earn (whether you work a job or own a business) and/or is generated by your wealth through investments.
Higher income taxes, which is what Buffet is referring to, would not impact him significantly because he’s arranges his investments such that income is kind of incidental though not irrelevant. His net worth means that even very low dividend or interest rates produce what we would consider (based on our net worths) very substantial income. The capital gains that would result from managing the investments makes up a high proportion of that income and can’t be avoided except, pretty much, by going static and not changing any investment.
I think he would be much less approving of a wealth tax because such a tax would make many types of investments very problematic. The old “land rich, cash poor” adage would start to apply where his investments would then have to throw off enough cash to pay income and wealth taxes. There would certainly be an equilibrium or relatively “ideal” mix of investments that would be optimal to such a situation but getting there, for him and most everyone else would likely be costly.
Russ808 on November 29, 2012 at 3:15 PM
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