[jdsteel]

Buffet (and his partner) lean left themselves. Slate magazine is a liberal rag. The article pointedly omits that the GOVERNMENT needs to stop spending & borrowing, and instead points it’s finger at the financial sector. The place described is more like “Fantasyland”, or “Liberaland”.

[DrC]

“Buffet (and his partner) lean left themselves.”

It certainly doesn’t help to have Buffett hop on the bandwagon to tax the rich more. Part of the reason spending is out of control is that progressives imagine that all we need to do is increase taxes on the rich and all our financial woes will melt away.

[classified]

Agree!

[Bernard Marx]

The article pointedly omits that the GOVERNMENT needs to stop spending & borrowing, and instead points it’s finger at the financial sector.

Exactly. And it fails to mention that much of the housing bubble was due to government requirements to lend to people who couldn't repay their housing loans. It's extreme Lefty BS.

[3niner]

Buffet (and his partner) lean left themselves.

Buffett leans left, Munger does not.

[hinckley buzzard]

Let's face it-- The government and the financial sector are one. Personified by Obama advisor Buffet himself.

[Cronos]

I’m sorry, but I read the article to be against big government: “Taxes are limited and pay for only “essential services” like fire protection, courts, and defense. Most taxes are collected on imports, and government spending matches that tax income. “