Class Warfare

La famosa frase de Warren Buffett en el 2006 no ha perdido vigencia casi 10 años después: “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap. The New York Times Ben Stein is a lawyer, writer, actor and economist. E-mail: ebiz@nytimes.com.