You should recognize when you are being yanked around by a writer with an agenda. MSN Money is the absolute worst place to try to get any objective reporting from. The hack who wrote this has been well known to be a right-wing hack for many years: http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/charles-babington-coveru...more

We could compare films of yore with the drivel that is produced today. Or the music. Or the television. Even the news. When businessmen took over all these industries, money became more important than story or originality - otherwise known as 'art'. In the old days before most of you were born, we had comedy that was h...more

More BS from those that will say anything to justify their argument. Read the other side of the argument before you jump to conclusions - but I can see from the comments that this author wants to paint a nice little picture and too many are willing to just drink the Koolaid. (full disclosure - I'm not on any form...more

You people need to read more and talk less. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/01/warren-buffett-and-his-secretary-talk-taxes/

And I hate it when Warren Buffett whines about his taxes too. What? You mean the richest man in America thinks his taxes are too low and that he and all the others of the 1% should be taxed at a higher rate than the average taxpayer? And what? Since he is the richest man in America and that supposedly makes you a...more

I know, I get tired of Al Gore whining all the time about his taxes, don't you? Oh, that's right ... he hasn't EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The irony of this is astounding. Those that smoke will just opt out and take the penalty tax instead because it will be cheaper. That means fewer will sign up and the benefits of the increased insured base will be diminished so that the premiums that others pay who don't smoke will be higher. The whole selling point of...more

Food and water will be the fiat in the future world. You can't survive by eating gold. But you can survive on food and water.

Yes, but it's really the unions who are the problem. All those people making $50,000 a year are crimping the style of all these executives. How can they brag about their 40 foot yacht when others in their country club have 50 footers? And how can they possibly afford a staff of 10 maids/butlers/grounds keepers/personal...more