buffett. number two on the forbes list of richest americans and a self-man meat worth $47 billion. mr. buffett believes his tax rate is completely unfair. what his secretary pays the middle class rate of 29% on her salary of $60,000 a year, mr. buffett pays just 17% on the reported $46 million he earned last year. he said that's unfair. the congressional republicans need to stop in buffett's words caudling billionaires. the caudling billionaires is almost second nature. they responded with a familiar cry. >> class warfare may make for good politics and it makes for rotten economics. we don't need a system that seeks to divide people. >> when you cake an area and tax the people because most people are not those people, that's class warfare.