Wasn't he advocating for a new min tax for top wage earners recently?
Warren Buffet seems to hold great favor with Obama. Rearranging American money (wealth) is the largest play piece on the board.
Breaking America fiscally has been the methodology used by this crowd since the beginning. It’s the engine that drives the dismantlement effort to put old, traditional, whitey America in its place.
Buffet probably rocks at all that. If it pays Buffet plays.
I believe he had a special carve out for income earned through investing.