"I’m sure you wouldn’t mind it if they raised taxes, Warren. After all, you (and all of your super-rich oligarchical friends like Bill Gates and Rockefeller) are exempt from all of the taxes that y’all wrote into the tax code.
"Folks, when they talk about raising taxes on “the rich”, they ain’t talking about people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, etc. They’re talking about a couple that make $250,000 a year or more. With food, fuel, and other living expenses costing as much as they do now, let me tell you something… those people aren’t rich. What guys like Buffet are doing is promoting a false class warfare. With fourty-four million people on food stamps, it’s easy for obligarchs like them to say “Hey, let’s get those guys!”, but before long, they’ll be directing the welfare hoards at you and your family too. If you really want to tax the rich, tax people like Buffet or Gates; because in the end, it’s going to be either them or us....
"Warren Buffet is pretending to be a generous, caring individual, when really he’s trying to push other people around by creating a false image of what it means to be wealthy...
"If you want to tax people who are harmful to society, tax those people who lie, cheat, and create loopholes in tax laws so they can maintain their entrenched plutocracy."
I would add to that: end ALL tax deductibility for charitable contributions and revoke ALL non-profit status for any organization that is not primarily a house of worship, a cemetery or a regular school. Time for greedy NGO directors (along with their bankrollers, the Soroses and Buffets) to get a taste of the real world hell they've been lobbying for for everyone else. As Martin Hutchinson put it on Prudent Bear last December:
"When some leftist billionaire like Warren Buffett calls for higher taxes, or advocates the retention of the estate tax, my blood boils. However worthy the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, if as he plans Buffett leaves it a legacy of some $30 billion his estate will pay no estate tax on that amount. That will deprive the Treasury of about $12 billion in revenue, which must be made up by the rest of us, who lack Buffett's means."
He’s a hypocrite. Everything he says and does is for his benefit. When he says he wants rich people to pay higher taxes, he means the rich people below himself. He will continue to shelter his money from taxes.
Buffet has opened his mouth one too many times for me.