Summary Quiz for “The Buffett Rule”

Question 11.17

1. Watch “The Buffett Rule” and summarize the selection below. Remember that your summary should restate the video’s main idea (or thesis) and that it should include only the most important supporting ideas. When you have completed your summary, “submit” your work.

Here is an example summary of this selection:

According to the video, Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the United States, was distressed when he realized recently that his secretary was paying a higher percentage of her income in taxes than he was. In fact, over the last fifty years, the effective tax rate of middle-income Americans has stayed the same while the tax rate of the richest Americans has dropped by about 25%. If we’re to have a progressive tax rate, then we should institute a system whereby the richest Americans (what the video calls the “uber-wealthy”) should pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than do middle-income Americans. This principle is called the Buffett Rule.

Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.
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