You don't know the difference between choice in giving and confiscation by the government?
Even a three year old knows the difference.
It's mind boggling how many people are stuck on stooopid.
How is this do as I say, not as I do? There is no contradiction that I can see between giving away a lot of money to charity and paying an estate tax. He's going to do both.
good socialist dogma dictates that the government is so much wiser in knowing how to spend your money than any individual. hillary and her treasonous gang should decide how to spend the omaha oracle's money not mr. gates.
With estate tax rates starting where they do, most Americans, even the most workaholic, will not be able to leave a house to each of their children and a college education to each of their grandchildren without being savaged by estate taxes.
Is that too much to ask after a lifetime of working yourself to death?
Yet, here is Warren Buffett who, even if he paid estate taxes and gave away 80% of his wealth would still be able to leave each of his kids hundreds of millions of dollars and that man still sickeningly pontificates about "not giving incredible head starts to certain people who were very selective about the womb from which they emerged".
In the mean time, people such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are building multi-billion ego monuments to themselves by creating their foundations ESTATE TAX FREE.
In our town, we have a Carnegie Library still boosting Carnegie's ego over a century after he died. Carnegie, however, gave his gift when there was no estate tax.
Warren Buffet's attitude concerning the average American workaholic who kills himself to leave his children and grandchildren a $4 million estate to be divided between then for college educations and help in purchasing their first homes is no more revolting than Marie Antoinette's dismissive, "Let them eat cake."
If Warren Buffett gave a rat's rectum about the average American, he would at least be advocating raising the minimum threshold for estate taxes instead of advocating that no change should be made.
You don't know the difference between choice in giving and confiscation by the government?
Even a three year old knows the difference.
It's mind boggling how many people are stuck on stooopid.