“Infiltrate and gain control of big business.”One of the voices of that takeover speaks out.
— Communist Goal #37
I guess the trillions of dollars spent hasn’t been enough.
Buffet remember Marx :
“From those who have means, to those to have needs.”
Practice what you preach, jerkoff.
I wonder how many jobs and homes would suddenly become available if every illegal left tomorrow...
Wonder whom Buffett supports to stay...
Billionaires should do more to combat poverty.
Buffet should do more....
What should the government actually DO to fight poverty, Warren? Make children finish high school with the ability to read and right and make change? Require people to be married and have a stable job before we let them get off of birth control or remove the “Patch?”
What exactly the H*** are you talking about, Warren?
Poverty will continue no matter how much money you throw at it because it is caused by a spiritual sickness.
Considering the war on poverty being fought by that same government is a huge cause of the poverty, I think that’s a really bad idea.
Buffett has paid for enough abortions to equal the population of Chicago.
Maybe Warren ought to put his money where mouth is and use HIS money.....and not ours.
I have worked in neighborhoods that were below the poverty line most of my adult life.
No one was going hungry and many looked like they have been eating very, very well; to the point diabetes and hypertension is certain at 30 years old.
A poverty of ethics, morals, personal responsibilty and conscience perhaps.
anytime Buffet wants to spend a few billion from his small change fund.....to “help fight poverty”..... he’s more than welcome to do so
hw can’t take it all with him anyways
Want to help the poor, provide rent free high rise apartments, and build them in Chappaqua NY. I’m sure the locals won’t mind.
Hey George, people end up in poverty because they try to live off govt. give outs, stupid.
There is never any explanation for what is going to switch the motivation away from free money and free resources to the overall responsibilities of having to secure those items for one’s self. Unfortunately the die is cast and a couple of generations have grown up dependent upon government services and government funding and I don’t think that they are going to be able to give it up except in very small numbers.
Buffett and Gates who are in the top 5 wealthiest people in the world, sheltered their wealth from taxes in the Gates foundation. He sure loves to tell everyone how they should pay more taxes. What a hypocrite.
Yep. I thought their goal was to kill as many humans as possible?
Buffett is trolling. He knows better. Government doesn’t “combat poverty”. If anything, it exacerbates it. The only known thing that “combats poverty” is a healthy supply and demand, free market economy with a motivated populace with an actual work ethic. He knows all of this, but once again, he’s trolling for whatever sick reason.
I'm tired of the constant use of Warren Buffett to advocate for higher estate taxes. Buffett put his own money into foundations. He's giving most of it away, which is a well-trodden path for people at his level, but he also set each of his children up with multi-billion dollar foundations. The kids are expected to do useful things with the money, and in fairness, they do seem to be responsible professional philanthropists. The advantages of big private philanthropy are that (1) people are spending their own money and (2) they are free to try novel things. They may not succeed, but they often expand the envelope.
The problem is, the left takes Buffett's offhand remarks about estate taxation and use it as a weapon against people who are far, far below Buffett's asset level. I'd be happy if someone pinned Warren down with specifics and proposed an estate tax rule that used a "Buffett threshold." Let everyone pass along two or three billion dollars to each of one's children, give unlimited amounts to favorite charities, and only then impose a hefty estate tax on what was left. I'm pretty sure that would protect small businesses, family farms, and upper middle class people with big houses that have appreciated in value, hefty 401(k) balances, and other successful investments. Such a "Buffett rule" would be a see and call moment for the left, which actually doesn't much care about the billionaires. The left wants to destroy the upper middle class, which they resent and envy far more than they do the truly wealthy.
People resent most other people whose success makes them feel bad about themselves. That's usually not the person whose abilities, skills, and level of success are orders of magnitude greater than one's own. It's the person who started out as a near-peer and worked harder, worked smarter, made better life choices, and saved more aggressively. At the political level, resentment is mainly the crabs in the basket pulling down the crabs that almost escape. The left is content with billionaires, especially because so many of the really wealthy are liberals. It's the successful professional or small business owner that they hate, because that's the person who showed up the faculty lounge leftists and the sign carrying street agitators with very ordinary middle class jobs and a sense of personal failure.