Stop Coddling the Super-Rich

[badgenome]

Ail said:

badgenome said:
Does anybody else find it peculiar that Buffett thinks he ought to give more of his money to the government but won't do it unless there's a gun shoved in his face? Clearly the solution is to raise Warren Buffett's taxes, but only his.

Because even if he did it that woudn't make all his friends decide to raise their taxes by themselves...

He's not asking for a Warren Buffet tax increase.

He's asking for a tax increase for everyone that makes more than a certain amount...

I guess, but every time the guy pokes his head up and bitches about how he's not paying enough taxes, he becomes the toast of the liberal blogosphere and media. This particular op-ed was the entire front page of the Puffington Host, and the first page of this thread reads like the Official Warren Buffett Fan Club. But if he really does feel so bad about not paying "his fair share", he can just cut a check to the Treasury right now for whatever he thinks he owes. He won't, though. His being wracked by guilt doesn't stop him from taking every deduction and exploiting every loophole he can, and since he even came out in favor of the private jet deduction Obama has been demagoging, I guess you'll have to pry those write-offs from his cold, dead hands.

Also, it occurs to me that his do-gooder billionaire pals are leaving their fortunes to philantrophic organizations and not to the feds. I suspect that's because they know it will be put to good use this way, instead of being blown in the span of a month on Medicare fraud and waste.