Members of the Buffett family--including what Warren said were the "best-looking women in the family"--stopped by.
While the Buffett Rule would certainly add some revenue, simplify things it would not.
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But unlike your rich friends above, the Buffett Rule would turn your world upside down.
This was true of the Buffett circle in general, not just of the Buffetts themselves.
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Another virtue of the Buffett Rule is that it exposes the craven hypocrisy of its opponents.
And yet, at the same time, by itself, the Buffett Rule solves no significant economic problem.
Simply put, the Buffett Rule, even if enacted, does almost nothing to solve our deficit problem.
He then will anticipate, as he talked about today, the Senate taking action on the Buffett Rule.
But the whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School.
The Buffett lunch is for up to 8 people including Buffett, the donor, and up to six guests.
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The President said in September that the Buffett Rule or millionaires taxed would help stabilize the debt and deficits.
The recent talk of reviving the Buffett Rule is a perfect illustration.
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The Buffett money is slated to be given away no more than 10 years after his estate is settled.
So, quips aside, we think the Buffett Rule is absolutely an important principle to apply to individual tax reform.
But the solution to that problem is to eliminate the step up in basis, not to introduce the Buffett Rule.
He was focused on talking about the need for Congress to act, the Senate to act on the Buffett Rule.
The Buffett rule is rooted in the fairy tale that taxes on the wealthy are lower than on the middle class.
Now, next week, members of Congress are going to have a chance to vote on what we call the Buffett Rule.
An industrial conglomerate that gives its many operating units management autonomy, Illinois Tool would seem to fit the Buffett management model.
Living the Buffett motto of being greedy when others are fearful, activist investor Carl Icahn has been very active recently.
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Just like the Buffett rule is a principle that would inform tax reform, and we certainly hope tax reform goes forward.
He has put forward principles behind tax reform that include the Buffett principle and reducing deductions that the wealthiest Americans can take.
Without the Buffett rule, more than 99 percent of millionaires will pay more than that and only about 4, 000 will pay less.
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Yet, tempting as it is to blow the Buffett billions on bolstering these programmes, research also has a claim on the pot.
We also have a strong difference of opinion on the Buffett Rule -- something the President has strongly supported, Mitt Romney has opposed.
In terms of the numbers on the balance sheet, one theme of the Buffett approach is solid results over a long period of time.
For financials, the Buffett-based approach also looks at the return on assets rate, which must average at least 1% over the past 10 years.
Mr. Obama wants to enact the Buffett Rule to ensure that every "millionaire" pays at least a 30% federal tax on some definition of income.
But as interesting a character as Buffett is, the more important piece of the Buffett puzzle for investors is this: How did he do it?
"The Buffett Rule says that multimillionaires should pay at least the same percentage of their income in taxes as middle-class families do, " Biden said Thursday.
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