"He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business... He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs."
-Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye
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| Phony Buffett |
Buffett apparently has not the slightest clue as to how much of a phony he's proving himself to be and the chasm between his words and deeds. In regard to Buffett's famous protestations, New Jersey governor Chris Christie recently made the following recommendation:"He should just write a check and just shut up. Really. And just contribute. I'm tired of hearing about it. If he wants to give the government more money, he's got the ability to write a check. Go ahead and write it."
Governor Christie, of course, has it exactly right.
The American Spectator : Warren Buffett's Empty Words
By Ron Ross on 3.22.12
They ring especially hollow at tax preparation time.
It's the time of year when our tax preparers tell us how much we owe the government. Here's what might be a revelation to any high-income liberal who thinks his or her tax rate is too low -- the amount of taxes your CPA tells you that you owe is aminimum not a maximum.
Warren Buffett is President Obama's favorite tax policy spokesman. It's not, however, because of Mr. Buffet's actions. It's only because of his words. Like a broken record, the President has used Buffett's words time and again as his primary argument for raising taxes on "millionaires and billionaires" and on "the most fortunate among us." Obama claims, "That's not class warfare, that's just common sense." In a recent fund raising letter the President asked, "Do you think it is fair that Warren Buffett's secretary pays a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett? I don't and neither does Mr. Buffett."
In an interview with Christiane Amanpour Buffett said, "I think people at the high end, people like myself, should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it." In testimony before Congress Mr. Buffett said, "The rich are coddled by Congress as if they were spotted owls or some other endangered species."
Buffett's specific indictment of the tax system is that he, a billionaire with an annual income in the millions, pays a lower tax rate (about 17 percent) than the 20 people in his office who pay, according to Buffett, an average rate of 36 percent. (The 36 percent number makes me wonder about his credibility.)...
Mr. Buffett, why do you want other people to be forced to do something you are unwilling to do voluntarily? Talk is cheap....
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