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Has Warren Buffett Lost His Mind?

July 6, 2015 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

Originally posted May 21, 2015.

Leave it to good ole’ Warren Buffett to create a stir. In a recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, he calls for an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to help low-income workers. How about a reduction in the size of government instead Mr. Buffett? Let workers keep more of what they make and this economy would be much better off. If government is such a great wealth transmission system, why not donate your money to the Treasury rather than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

Elite businessmen like Buffett do nothing to help this economy when they forget about the successful workers who helped them get there. As it is, the successful already pay far too much of their hard-earned income into worthless government programs like the EITC. A “better” EITC simply creates an increased incentive to game the system. I like what this reader has to say in the comment section:

Mr Buffett is either coy or fails to consider how the worker who is around the top of the bracket of the EITC will behave. I did taxes for a single parent with two kids, I told her if she cut her hours down from 40 to 32 a week that she would gain about 30% of the earnings back with a much higher EITC and lower state taxes. She choose to cut her hours. Businesses will cut back raises, and some employees will cut back hours just to get the freebies, which now includes Obamacare subsidies. It is a perverse incentive to work, but only work just enough to maximize the freebies.

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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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