that according to republican theory, i should have thrown a fit and refused to invest because of the elevated tax rates on capital gains and dividends. i didn t refuse, nor did others. i have worked with investors for 60 years, and i have yet to see anyone shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. buffett noted that the tax burden on the super rich has declined significantly in the last 20 years. sp@n 1992, the top 400 american income earners paid 29.2% in taxes. by 2008, that had dropped to 21.5%. while the overall income of the top 400 rose exponentially from $71 billion to $91 billion. buffett proposes as i have for years creating a new tax bracket for incomes above $1 million, and yet another top tax bracket for incomes of $10 million or more.
theory, i should have thrown a fit and refused to invest because of the elevated tax rates on capital gains and dividends. i didn t refuse, nor did others. i have worked with investors for 60 years, and i have yet to see anyone shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. buffett noted that the tax burden on the super rich has declined significantly in the last 20 years. in 1992, the top 400 american income earners paid 29.2% in taxes. by 2008, that had dropped to 21.5%. while the overall income of the top 400 rose exponentially from $71 billion to $91 billion. buffett proposes as i have for years creating a new tax bracket for incomes above $1 million, and yet another top tax bracket
fit and refused to invest because of the elevated tax rates on capital gains and dividends. i didn t refuse, nor did others. i have worked with investors for 60 years, and i have yet to see anyone shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. buffett noted that the tax burden on the super rich has declined significantly in the last 20 years. in 1992, the top 400 american income earners paid 29.2% in taxes. by 2008, that had dropped to 21.5%. while the overall income of the top 400 rose exponentially from $17 billion to $91 billion. buffett proposes as i have for years creating a new tax bracket for incomes above $1 million, and yet another top tax bracket for incomes of $10 million or more.
old. youngest state? utah. 29.2 years old. florida still has the largest number of retirees. that s right. doesn t have the oldest mean population. right. interesting. meantime we re going to give you the latest on ratko mladic, arrested yesterday after a 16-year manhunt. the significance of this arrest in terms of genocide and these sorts of crimes and ethnic cleansing in the future. david shepard is next, the former ambassador at large for war crimes in the clinton administration. this was a very, very big story then. we re going to tell you what it means now. the count on chevy event is here. your ticket to a cruze eco. 42 mpg and over 500 highway miles a tank. one of our 9 models over 30 mpg highway.
immigrants. move over florida, you may have the most retirees but it is the maine that has the oldest population in the nation. this is the new census data. this is why i love this census. i am a numbers guy. it gives me lots of numbers to talk about. it reports the average person in main is 42.7 years old. experts say college age students are moving out, baby boomers are aging. the older population is staying put. coming in at second rkts vermont, 41.5 years old. west virginia, 41.3 and new hampshire at 41.1. the youngest state is utah, 29.2. that is stunningly lower than the rest of the states. speaking of young, a very young billionaire, mark zuckerberg, now that he has concurred the social working sector. founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg is taking on a new challenge. he says, the only meat he will eat is from animals he has personally killed. the 27-year-old billionaire says since he has undertaken this