I think Bill Gates and Warren Buffett should appear on NBC's "Fear Factor" until they fess up to the truth. "Fear Factor" producers' plans to serve fresh glasses of donkey semen to contestants on the next episode had NBC execs so concerned ... they gave serious thought to killing the stunt, TMZ has learned. Sources involved in the production tell us the stomach-churning stunt was shot last summer -- but NBC honchos were having a tough time swallowing this one as the air date approached. We're told the challenge involved teams of twins drinking the full glass of donkey semen -- with a glass of urine thrown in for good measure. Contestants had to drain both glasses in order to move on to the next round. Our sources say NBC execs had multiple pow-wows in the months after the stunt was shot ... but eventually gave FF producers the thumbs up.
I know, I heard that. Can't say which is more disgusting, well actually I can, but them doing it or NBC okaying it. Yuk. Free enterprise and free speech? Yuk again. c
Just out of curiosity, if they are so keen on the rich paying more, why is it they do not voluntarily practice what they preach? The IRS allows anyone to make donations to the U.S. Treasury at any time they so well choose.
Please don't confuse the market going up with the belief that the economy is getting better. As has been said hundreds of times, it is the money supply driving the market, not the economic future. If the Fed suddenly reversed it's free money policy tomorrow, the market would dive like a missile.
The problem of freeriders. No one wants to be alone when they make sacrifice, it does not seem fair. Which is why inequality is bad, because the inevitable, periodic suffering that Life imposes on us all is not equally shared in a highly stratified society, but more importantly, it's viewed as unfairly shared.
He knows that. He just lives for the sound bite. There's no percentage in being the only guy not peeing in the pool. For it to work, everyone has to play.
I don't think it's foolish at all. If I wanted to show that I supported something, I would practice it. It's like Al Gore running all around the country screaming about global warming as he takes his private jet. If you believe in the principle, show it. Buffet and Gates made all of their money already. They don't care what the income tax rate gets pushed to. Shall we review Buffet's tax choices? He could have made choices to classify the majority of his income as just that - income, rather than capital gains. That would have put him in a higher tax bracket. He did what he did because it resulted in lower income taxes, yet "the horror of the system's inequality" forced him - at gun point, eh - to pay the lower number. What a crock.