Pivoting off of Warren Buffett’s claim that the billionaire investor pays less in taxes as a share of his income than does his secretary, the progressive group MoveOn.org has released a new ad linking said secretary to other ordinary Americans.
The message wastes no time taking the populist tack. “I’m Warren Buffett’s secretary,” say a series of people who look nothing like office assistants but who are likely to share the same tax bracket.
President Obama leapt onto the meme in his deficit reduction speech Monday when he unveiled the Buffett Rule, a proposal to make millionaires pay at least the same share of taxes as middle class families.
