alt.politics.economics

"GoForward" wrote in message
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> On Aug 21, 6:51 pm, "catalpa" wrote:
>>
>> Buffet is not a conservative, he is a typical liberal who wants everyone
>> but
>> themselves to pay all the taxes. How can he be "for a progressive
>> taxation
>> on wealth" whan he has paid zero taxes on his increase in wealth to $52
>> billion? He currently pays zero taxes on his wealth and will pay zero
>> taxes
>> on his wealth in the future.
>
> ... and you're a typical Brown Shirt wannabe. Sorry you weren't
> born in Berlin in the 20's, eh ?
>
> /2003/05/20/news/buffett_tax/
>
> /archives/
>
> /2006/06/26/buffett-estate-tax/
>
> /taxprof_blog/2007/07/
>

And you are a typical name calling loser that finds it impossible to
properly respond to the facts. Why does pointing out Buffet's hypocrisy on
taxes make you so upset?

Those links are nothing but Buffet's verbal nonsense. What Buffet says and
what he does are two completely different things. The reality is that Buffet
purposely minimizes his tax burden. He has avoided many billions of dollars
in income taxes over the years by never selling shares of Berkshire
Hathaway. By paying himself an annual salary of only $100,000 instead of the
tens of millions of dollars he actually deserves he avoids many millions of
dollars in income and FICA taxes every year. He explicitly won't pay the
taxes that he wants everyone else to pay. People like Buffet can voluntarily
pay all the taxes they want to, but Buffet likes to pay as close to zero as
possible. The rest of us have no choice and are forced to pay the full tax
rate.