Makes perfect sense.
Increased property taxes, allied with increases in payments on shakey ARMS equals more and faster defaults for he and his buddies to leech from.
There seems to be a malady with some of the Super Rich where they try to buy their souls back as though the are guilty of a crime and not just successful.
"Atonement" has nothing to do with it; creating more misery for others in order to feed their own coffers is what it is all about.
If he and those like him, "want" to pay $1,000,000 more in taxes, it is only because it will net them $10,000,000 more in income.
There is no reason Buffett couldn’t send the IRS more money, they would take it.