Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

The number you used of an eight percent tax rate for the 400 biggest tax filers... means that those super-wealthy tax filers are paying lowe...

As Warren Buffet famously observed, he paid lower tax rates than his office staff.

That has to stop, not just as a matter of economic probity, but as a matter of simple decency and justice.

It is decidedly not a budget for creepy billionaires and fossil fuel overlords.