Wait a Minute, “Saint Warren” (Buffett) is Really a Shit-Bag?! Sure Looks That Way!

Recently, Warren Buffett released his tax data to the media to refute Trump’s claims of his being a “tax avoider,” (tax avoidance is a moral obligation, tax EVASION is a crime) and he challenged Trump to meet him “any place, anytime” to share tax returns and answer questions.

But Warren should be among the LAST people on earth capable of challenging Trump’s use of existing legal deductions, as Buffett uses the very  SAME deductions (and many MORE) himself and his own tax returns prove that.

Few, if ANY (and absolutely no actual working Americans) accept the Marxist idea that our earnings, somehow, belong to the government. What we earn belongs to us. It’s not a gift from any “benevolent rulers” in Washington, D.C.

The moral imperative is not for citizens to give more of their hard-earned money to government to waste and use for nefarious purposes, quite the reverse.

At its core, taxation is coercive theft. It’s collected through force, not any exchange or persuasion. So the moral duty is on the government to keep it to an absolute minimum.

The last person who should be arguing otherwise is an overt hypocrite like Warren Buffett.

For years, Buffett has signaled his own virtue by calling for tax increases on wealthy Americans...all the while using the tax code to pay ridiculously small amounts in federal taxes himself.

According to Michael Covel, of The Daily Reckoning, “Much of Buffett’s $64 billion fortune is tied up in his company, Berkshire Hathaway.

“Berkshire Hathaway hasn’t paid any cash dividends in decades. Instead, it uses all of its income to acquire other companies. And when it does, it stops any dividends those companies once paid and adds that money to the stockpile used to buy more companies.

“For example, Berkshire acquired Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 2010. At the time, Burlington paid roughly $550 million in dividends to shareholders. But Berkshire stopped that and kept that cash in-house.

“That nails retirees who rely on dividend income. But it’s great for Berkshire and Buffett.

“Barron’s reported that had Berkshire paid out the average of the S&P 500 companies in 2014, it would have distributed roughly $6 billion in dividends.

“Buffett would have received $1.2 billion of that, for a tax bill of $280 million.

“But estimates have him paying roughly 1/40th of that amount by keeping his wealth in the company and immune from the income tax rates we regulars in the peasant class are burdened with.

“And that’s just one transaction. Berkshire’s business model is built on scores of tax-advantageous deals and operations.

“Barron’s reporter Morris Propp nailed it when he wrote:

“It seems that Buffett and his businesses are serial deprivers of tax revenue to the U.S. Treasury. Yet that does not deter him from loudly advocating higher income tax rates for others.”

That makes Buffett the worst kind of “rich guy,” the kind that builds nothing, raids companies, kills tens of thousands of jobs and costs American taxpayers in higher rates because he’s able to shield the bulk of his own wealth through tax loopholes that he has fought hard to forge and maintain.

Yet HE’S the poster-child for American Democrats!