Income and Tax Inequality

“The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

That’s from Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in the U.S., addressing the guests at a $4,600-a-seat political fund-raiser. When one of the world’s richest men is complaining he doesn’t pay enough in taxes, maybe that should tell you something.

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What the Writers Guild Wants

Even if we (the UPS Teamsters) haven’t gotten everything we wanted, we should still be pulling for Hollywood writers to come out on top in their strike. For a quick tutorial on what their strike is about, watch this video:

It should be noted that Teamsters are at the forefront of support for the striking writers. Which is exactly how it should be. For more on the writers’ perspective, please visit United Hollywood