Buffett, Clinton Push Higher Taxes On The Wealthy

In a state that has voted predominantly Republican in every election since 1964, and all but one election over the past seven decades, Clinton, the oft-maligned former Secretary of State, brought a standing-room-only crowd to her Omaha campaign stop on a frigid, dry morning.

Clinton said that while she backs Buffett’s rule, which was first pitched by the Obama White House in 2011, she wants to go further in ensuring wealthy Americans pay higher tax rates.

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Mr Buffett, a long-time critic of America’s uneven taxation of rich and poor, listed statistics showing the widening income gap as he introduced Mrs Clinton at her first event in Nebraska.

In one of her lighter moments on the campaign trail, Clinton admitted that singing and dancing might not be in her “astrological reading”.

During a 40-minute speech, Clinton proposed a bold array of specific domestic initiatives that ranged from an increase in the federal minimum wage to “common-sense gun safety” reform while pledging to “go after and defeat ISIS and other terrorists (by) leading an global coalition to take on ISIS from the air” while relying on Mideast allies to pursue those Islamic State fighters on the ground.

Campaigning in red-state Nebraska, the Democratic presidential front-runner encouraged a friendly audience of some 800 people to spread the word to their GOP friends. “You know, I used to love Abbott and Costello. Even when I was a way lot younger, it wasn’t in the cards for me”. “Vaudeville was never this good”. Clinton joked that she’d “rather be president because I can’t sing”.

Clinton has said she’s talked about Wall Street excess for years and has vowed to seek criminal penalties for bankers who break the rules.

Buffett has referred to Clinton as a “hero of mine” in the past and predicted previous year that she would succeed President Obama, whom he also supported.

Clinton said she would defend Planned Parenthood and a woman’s right to choose as well as marriage equality. He is also helping her raise money.

Gun safety laws can be strengthened, she said, while still supporting the Second Amendment’s gun rights guarantees.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves to supporters at a campaign event, on Wednesday at Sokol Auditorium in Omaha, Neb.

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