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  • I hope Warren Buffett buys you out!

  • I am argentine, I see things outside your country and I can know this guy, Donald Trump, it's the only one who is closer to the best solution. Many subsidies are destroying the global capitalist system. You can't live in a bubble for ever. Obama is drawing you numbers and you are believing hiim... For sure: you are going down.

  • Tax the rich. Come what may.

  • wil see about that today donald backs up mitt romeny beacouse of he dont want ron paul come in and high the taxes for the ritch fucking scumbag peace of trash donald is

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  • A broken clock is right twice a day

  • When Donald Trump's net worth exceeds what it was when he inherited it from his father, then he can talk to me about capitalism. (BTW, it is down, and has only gone down. If it wasn't for his dad, he'd be in the fucking gutter right now)

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  • I used to like trump, I've read his books (not all, but almost all of them), he used to be an inspiring source of corporate behavior to me... But ever since the o'Donell episode, he's acting like crazy... I mean, something is wrong with him

    This Donald Trump is not the same dicribed on the book I've mentioned

    Which one is true?

    Buffett is smarter (not to mention richer too) than Donald Trump, period!

    Why go after him?

    This character called "Trump" now shown is not only crazy but dumb and stupid!

  • Putting the oil matter aside, this man could be running for president one day and he just might get elected. Know I'm not an American but it would be a new low for Americans everywhere.

  • Very good points. these things have a habit of never having happened though.

  • the real issue is, it should be against the law to accept money from a lobbyist, in ANY form.

    If you did that, and actually policed it, by well paid agents, then being a politician would be a chore and not the cash cow that it is today.

  • You are the most biased commentator in the world. The rich have the highest tax rates in the country, moron. Who are your heroes? All the Obama voters on Food Stamps and welfare, living off the sweat of another man's brow? Pleeeez! They are crooks ripping off those paying at the 35% rate. And NY has lost many millionaires like Rush due to high state taxes. That's the facts, Jack. You sound like some liberal feel-good putz.

  • @DexterHaven49 Ignorance is a virtue.

  • Warren Buffett is Obama's lap dog. I'm sick of that sellout liberal piece of shit!!!! Fuck him and his lies about taxes and kissing the ass of B of A. He knows government is is the biggest crook in the USA but doesn't dare say so. Fuck him!

    Someone please throw a pie at Buffett at the next Berk. Hath. shareholder meeting. Buy a share to just get in and douse him with Dairy Queen on a plate. He deserves it. My T-shirt: "Pie Buffett or bust."

  • It's a pity Donald Trump won't be President, He'd up taxes on the other rich while leaving loopholes for himself.

    Also they're already moving to Canada for the lower tax rate and the 5 year tax asylum.

  • @SirTimbo Yeah we are pretty fucked here in Canada right now... in order for the NDP to replace the liberals as the leader of the opposition, there would have to be a Harper majority... and there was... and now jack Layton is dead of cancer... fuck...

  • America is doomed under Owe-bama

  • People look at Ron Paul like he is a savior who will 'change' the game. Yeah, we naver had THAT before.

  • Heh... it IS funny that people don't listen to sanity until someone like Warren Buffet says it out loud.

    Funny in an inky black way, but funny nonetheless.

  • I can never stop watching Trump's mouth whenever I see him talk. It looks like a little pigs pink asshole flapping in the wind.

  • @BigBagsForRent Very much like!

  • Why is this news all of a sudden? Warren Buffet has been speaking publicly about taxes and "fair share" for a long time.

  • No, what's totally insane is that fucking hair on your stupid head.

  • subsidies or not,private bussinesses operate on a profit margin,

    .that won't change.consumers will pay the difference for the cut in oil company revenue.who does that hurt ?the 50% of people who pay no income tax (the poor) or the evil oil companies?everybody has to have gas and heat.

  • The GOP soon will introduce a bill to change the name of our country to The United States of Koch Brothers!

  • Donald Frump is almost as shameless as Sarah Pale-one in his avariciousness.

  • trump is such an asshole, but somehow i think he is cool.

  • ron paul did not vote for the oil substidies

    clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll1­53.xml

    thought you should know

  • @TwistedComplex ---

    You just gave me a vote where every single Republican voted no on.

    Are you saying this bill was the one exclusively about oil subsidies?

    No, Ron Paul finally voted to keep them. Every other Republican outright supports oil subsidies so just by that simple fact, your bill is senseless as fuck since in that, every Republican voted NO.

    No, Ron Paul voted to keep the privileged position of the largest oil companies in the world.

  • And to be clear, people like Ron Paul who voted "no" on the bill Cenk is talking about are voting on a multitude of issues!

    It doesn't simply read "Check yes or no: Should there be oil subsidies?"

    Ron Paul ended up voting against his own bill to audit the fed by the time it was sent back to committee and amended.

    This is D.C.'s energy plan, not just the Republicans. Democrats support subsidies for giant "green" corporations that would have gone under in normal market conditions.

  • NOT TAKING MONEY = SUBSIDIES?

    Why isn't the left principled? Why support subsidies for planned parenthood or corn ethanol, actual subsidies, but not for big oil?

  • I hate how dumbass liberals like to use the words "Republicans" and "Tea Party" interchangeably.

    I'm a proud member of the Tea Party and I against ALL subsidies for anyone no exceptions! Because that is my tax dollars being given away!

  • Sad really, seems like nobody is doing the right thing these days.

  • OweBama is the leader of the tea party.

    Without his quadrupling of Bush's deficit (who never was very fiscally savvy or conservative) the movement would have never got legs.

    We don't care who the politician is, republican, democrat, (that may be redundant) black or white, we just don't think we are getting our VALUE out of the taxes we pay. Simply put - our politicians spend OUR money STUPIDLY!

    All we ask is that our politicians spend OUR money like it was their OWN!

  • Final Bush tally: 10,300+ DEAD

    (3,000 on 9/11. 4,500 in Iraq, 1000 in Afg. 1,800 in Katrina.)

    Debt: $11.3 Trillion

    $4.00 gas; $147 oil.

    Osama bin Laden left uncaptured.

    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Thanks GOP!!!

  • This guy is SO ugly. 

  • Opposing the oil subsidies is communism.

  • Big business doesn't just own the Republican Party; they own the Democratic Party as well.  As soon as people wake up, stop blaming the other side, and realize they're been screwed from both ends then and only then will things begin to change.

  • Ron Paul did in fact vote to keep the oil subsidies.

  • @underbjorn no he didnt

  • WHY DO WE EVEN CARE WHAT THE TALKING HAIR THINKS?

    Its not that I don't agree with him, but he's such a con job I want him out of the way.

  • Get your hands on Ron Paul and get him in there - he's your only bloody hope!!!

  • wait... did ron paul vote for the subsidies? i find it very hard to believe that ron paul would do such a thing

  • a subsidy is giving 1 person another persons money. letting a person keep his own money is not a subsidy. farm subsidies are actual subsidies.

  • It's a bigger risk in the devaluation of the money they have leaving America, then it is to pay taxes. Warren Buffett knows that.

  • The GOP voted 100% for MONEY for CORPORATE JET OWNERS and CUTS for PUBLIC SCHOOLS and EDUCATION????

    WHY???

  • Wait just so I understand this. Obama is to the right of Trump?

  • For once, I agree with Trump. Those few wealthiest will leave because they're not Americans. I look at them as vampires. Money and power is the blood they need. They suck us dry slowly from the shadows until we're dead, then move to the next victim. They don't care about the country. They have no country. They think the world is their country. If you put garlic in the economy, (taxes), they run to the next country to suck dry. Do we really want vampires to stay? Do we really need them to stay?

  • We need MORE CORPORATE JET OWNERS and less Public Schools!

  • Donald Trump wakes up every morning and waits for his personal hair dresser to come over, after 3 houres later he's ready for the day.

  • He may not want to have the higher taxes but he is telling the truth about these wall street fuckers and their lack of loyalty to their country. I believe him when he says these assholes will ditch this country in a heartbeat.

  • First: This vanishing of big companies is an old and profound issue. They will just go elsewhere. Actually I think you can't do anything against it. Second: How do you want to solve this problem. It's routed in the dillemma, that people in mighty positions are looking for other coherences, f.e. other big leaders and therefore not caring bout the poorer people. Further the 'normal' people don't seem to be able to cut their own urges by themselves to save society. But without that...

  • they voted for tax breaks on oil because if we didnt' the end result would be more power money for the government to use, TYT you're starting to lose this liberal persona more and more. i mean, who paid you to make this clip?

  • Why the fuck do people still talk to Trump? Why is he relevant?

  • i didn't know comb-over was still relevant....

  • The combover just shot himself in the foot.

  • donald, too late to try to sound reasonable...

  • whoa... what a turn around!

  • Ron Paul didnt vote for the subsidies...

    so no, not all Republicans, cenk.

  • @treysparker Ummm yes he did Cenk interviewed him about it on MSNBC...! 

  • @METALMAN4Wii

    Yeah everyone's a genius after the fact.

  • @METALMAN4Wii

    The housing and credit bubble began in 2001 and lasted roughly 6-7 years.

    That entire time Warren Buffet negated any upcoming recession due to the artificially low interest rates by the fed.

    In 2008, Buffet finally changed his tune after years of telling anyone who thought a recession was imminent, they were crazy.

    That doesn't make him a genius. By then half of Wallstreet knew.

  • @treysparker Ok that's a great story and Im going to let you finnish. but Ron Paul voted for tax breaks for oil companies simply because he is against government...!

  • You know what a good incentive to drill for oil is? FINDING OIL.

  • I fucking knew it. I was talking about this the other day with my buddies on how these corporations have us by the balls. And they basically make our politicians afraid that they would uproot and go to a different country. Greedy sons of bitches, all of them. Get the FUCK OUT OF AMERICA!!!!!!

  • The Tea Baggers will tear Trump a new Asshole for this.

  • Warren Buffet should run for president.

  • @psychokillercrab

    Warren Buffet doesnt know anything about economics. He was a very lucky investor.

    Im very sincere about that.

    In the years leading up to the great recession, he was on TV continuously telling people the economy has never been stronger, and that people should continue investing in financials. His company (Moodys) rated the sub prime loans AAA. He suggested real estate was the best investment to make at the time. In early 08 he changed his mind. By then it was too late.

  • @treysparker You don't have to be a financial genius to see that certain groups aren't paying their fair share in taxes.

  • @treysparker I doubt luck had anything to do with it. But at least he admits when shit is wrong. I think he is a good business leader

  • It took just 1 rich man to speak and make the media care about what the entire country has been complaining about for years.

    Its depressing.

  • I'm not really pro-republican but by subsidizing the oil companies doesn't that keep the oil/gas prices relatively low? I mean if the government doesn't subsidize oil companies than it is more expensive for oil companies to make their product as they have to put more money into their factors of production thus increasing the price of oil.

    On the other hand people say that we can save a lot more money if the government didn't put money into oil subsidies.

    Can someone prove me wrong? Please?

  • The problem is...nobody knows...

  • The truth shall come out.

  • Trump is so "early this year" who cares what he says or thinks now.

  • Let's lower everyone's tax rate to 0% and when the the US infrastructure, army and everything else begins to rot, let's see if everyone is going to pay their fair share voluntarily.... Yeah I doubt it's going to work that way.

  • @juanphdz 0% income tax and a 20-25 % discretionary tax on all purchases would work fine, people would pay tax proportionally (business too) and its cheap/simple to operate. 

  • @philthy122 is discretionary tax like VAT?

  • @kaelim888 VAT or GST either would work; in their current application tho they are essentially a tax on other taxes in many cases. 

  • @juanphdz Could we privatize those things, then lower the tax rate? That might work better.

  • i've just gained some respect for trump

  • @burny6666 Just a lil bit... HELL yes Tax the hell out of oil companies they ruined sea life, and fishing productivity in the Gulf ocean areas!

  • Don't you love that Catch-22?

  • TYT do you know about the grass roots idea of national hiring day that would call for corporations to put patriotism ahead of profits and each hire one or more - or at least stop firing for a month?

  • Why are our politicians catering to corporate machines? I dont care what your political view is I think we all know the an$wer to that question.Its the same reason nothing ever gets done in politics, big corporations own this country, you and the politicians, the same people in charge of your tax$. Remember the last president who tried to make it mandatory to expose politics to the US citizens? His brains got blown out. Be happy with what you have, cause it wont change with out revolting.

  • If the words "government" and "corruption" weren't interchangeable in the American vocabulary, maybe everyone wouldn't mind paying taxes and WORKING TOGETHER

  • About time Cenk see Trump for his true political stance.

  • I just about shit myself when I heard Trump say no to oil subsidies. Thats fucking amazing.

  • When Donald says that there will be a mass exodus it is only a half truth. Investment capital fleeing the country will only happen if a tax increase is to large or lasts to long, but current profit levels are so high that businesses CAN afford to pay at least a little more.

  • Even the illiterate jerkoff TYT trolls here can't defend it!

  • @xJoeEDangerouslyx Who the f. . k are you? Go and watch Faux Noise, while drinking some tea.

  • OIl is leaking in the Gulf AGAIN!! ...Macondo sea floor is leaking oil!!!!!stuarthsmith(DOT)com/o­il-risi­ng-from-macondo-well-b­p-hires-­fleet-of-40-shrimp-bo­ats-to-la­y-boom-around-deepwa­ter-horizo­n-site

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  • I'm long crude - so I hope they cut the subsidies....

  • Did Trump get taxed on that oil, he puts on his piece.........

  • Fuck! Donald Trump say something smart! And I have to agree with him!!! And this after Warren Buffett been slam for being a communist...

    What next? President Ron Paul will raise taxes???

  • Exxon is already an international company. That is one way they avoid taxes.

  • genie0390 they already pay next to nothing in taxes so it really wouldn't make that much of a difference if they moved to Switzerland, actually maybe that'd be better since (hopefully) our politicians would feel less inclined to give them billions of our taxmoney in oil subsidies.

  • Who cares what this man has to say? NEXT STORY

  • why is it that Americans only start listening when a billionaire like buffet states the obvious.

  • @foofkanon many people want kings and lords and they don't know it. 

  • a large chunk of the democrats also suport oil subsidies. but exon owns senators and house representatives in both parties. the koch brothers have way more political sway than the state of california. we really need to pass laws that stop companies from paying for election campaigns. private interests squash out free speech by removing the non-corrupt guy's voice. politicians are corrupt because businesses are responsible for keeping them in office.

  • The funny thing is that the US taxes Americans' worldwide incomes, regardless of where you live and work - moving to Switzerland wouldn't do anything unless they went the whole 9 yards and renounced their citizenship.

  • Trump knows how much he is hated. That's why he stopping running.

    This is just for publicity.

  • HEY TRUMP! YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Ericthebearjew1 Actually no he doesn't, its his daddy's money. He makes his money by bankrupting himself and then scamming the American people. o.O

  • i dont want to live on this planet anymore.

  • I think we should tax the rich more. But what Trump said about moving to Switzerland isn't nonsense at all. Instead of just laughing it away, TYT could do some research on what the effect will be when the greedy feel their screwed by the American government. Will they take their money to tax havens?

  • Fuck ALL republicans and FUCK the Tea Baggers!!!!

  • @datniggami6 Totally  AGREE FUCK THIS MOTHER FUCKERS!

  • @datniggami6 well fuck you too

  • @arobbie1997 I'm sorry LOL I was reading the comments and LOL that was funny! I know pointing the finger gets you no where blah, blah, blah... but come on taxes should be raised on the rich point blank. And threatening to leave the states and take businessmen else where is stupid on them.

  • @lahana24 yeah taxes should be raised

  • @datniggami6 Shut up, we wont get anywhere insulting people we disagree with... you are being just as bad as donald trump right now.

  • @wileib1 FUCK YOU

  • @wileib1 Beat it cocksucka!!!!!

  • @datniggami6 Wow...are you five?

  • @wileib1 Eat a fuckin dick n get the fuck off mine!!!!

  • @datniggami6 "Fuck all republicans and fuck the teabaggers"... ok well you are being massively homophobic right now, just like the gop and the teabaggers... you hypocrite.

  • @wileib1 So that must means you're a fag! I don't give a fuck about offending fags! I'd rather have you muthafuckas exterminated!

  • @datniggami6 Wow... just fucking wow...

  • @wileib1 Fuckin right!

  • @datniggami6 EXCUSE ME CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO BLOCK PEOPLE!?

  • @datniggami6 Oh and not "fucking wow..." this guy is so cool, more like"fucking wow..." this guy is an ignorant retard.

  • @datniggami6 how eloquently put.

  • i also deal with wallstreet people and he has some truth to what he says.

    They do not care about a flag or a country...its all about money.

    They would leave and just take the money with them(nothing really stopping them) if the situation warranted that. But the only problem is USA has the highest upside financially still in the world. Also even if the ax rate were increased by 10% USA would still have pretty low tax rates for those extremely rich bastards

  • Raise taxes on the rich and corporations but create a expatriation tax that charges anyone who denounces citizenship 50% auth to do it. We'll see who will leave.

  • Explain to the Tea Party hahaha thats funny.

  • Im dreaming with this one, but what if... now im jus saying what if... the american people some way banded together and invested money to start an american people owned oil company where the profits would go straight to the people who invested money. It will never happen but that would be epic

  • Sure elected officials who are republicans and get contributions support oil companies give aways.....they are bought and paid for.

    HOWEVER, GOP leaning TEA PARTY Ron Paul types like me DON NOT support give aways to ANYBODY ESP. BIG OIL COMPANIES AND THEIR BANKSTER PALS, who get us into resource wars.

  • Trump is a fucking opportunist. That's why he's rich.

  • Its quite simple. Say if you move out of the US. We will get the taxes out of your products you want to import here. Lets see you try to sell that shit in counterfeit China with a poor class.

  • does this mean gas is going down

  • Come on man, I am already a subscriber....take that message down.

  • AMERICANS! - you killed communism and the TOKAMAK system which was supperior to your research and now youre bleeding the world of currency and business capability with this oil "Crisis" . Invest in Thermonuclear research instead maybe? But your shadowy elite whont allow that cause if a Cold fusion reactor is invented Oil will become cheap and as useless as dirt and you whnt be making buckets of cash. Meanwhile Homeless people and unemployment are rising and their control over you aswell.

  • 100%? What about Ron Paul, lol? 

  • @BestestDerek Ron Paul is barely a republican.

    He is still an independent at heart, he has just now put up a Republican facade so he can get Republican votes.

  • Rednecks and Tea Baggers see labels saying Made in USA and think their supporting their country when thats not the case. MADE in America Co. is looking for every way not to pay the US its taxes how patriotic is that ? LOL , and JIM Bob goes out his way to buy Made in America when Made in China is paying the taxes

  • finally something intelligent came out of this guys mouth

  • There are incredibly few migrants due to taxes. Let them move to Switzerland - let's see if there they are willing to learn the new languages and go thorugh a culture shock.

  • @turgore They'd be more than willing to put up with new cultures and learn new languages if they're getting a 13% tax rate as opposed to a 35% tax rate.

  • I'd love for companies to start taking their business elsewhere. What the rich in the United States lack is the same fear that the average person has of being robbed, killed, etc. Not that everyone is or should be afraid, but people who steal from people tend to steal from people of the same socioeconomic class.

    The wealthy don't care about cops or problems in public schools, they buy their way around all that.

    Let them set up shop in Somalia, where there's no government, and see what happens.

  • @dEdGrimley ---

    The best investment opportunity for free market entrepreneurs in the world is piracy in the Gulf of Aden. ;)

  • @underbjorn ---

    On both sides ofc, funnel weapons to the pirates and weapons to the shipping companies.

  • Yeah but they dont want to live in switzerland. Too many americans willing to be ripped off.

  • The tax increase for thewealthy just isn't gonna happen..regardless on howmuch we "debate" it! Why?BOTH political parties, including our current President has been BOUGHT by those weathy corporations, to make sure their taxes remain low! They will continue to cut programs for the poor and middle class, and RAISE taxes on the poor and middle class, to help pay for those tax cuts for the wealthy! This is the sad reality of politics in America. The sooner we all realize this, the better!

  • Anyone ever google "donald trump eminent domain abuse"

    And some want to elect this dictator...unbelievable.

    Want to make your own choices and get government out of your lives?

    Vote RON PAUL 2012.

  • Who thinks Fox will tear Trump apart, calling him an un-American communist?

  • @MrCrazyCanuk Well Fox will try, but they'll probably trip over their own shoelaces as usual.

  • There needs to be a national discussion about the individual tax rate as it pertains to job creation and brain drain. Republicans claim that it influences jobs, but history is not on their side. What influences jobs the most: tax breaks or demand? It is obviously demand, so when the top 5% has 63% of the nation's wealth, the consumer class does not have much wealth, thus demand decreases. Once wealth is more equally distributed, then demand will increase.

  • Every single republican.. are you sure about that?

  • @zOMGLaserGunzPewPew I think so, I think even ron paul voted to keep the oil subsidies, could be wrong though...