MaggieD
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Anyone who can't see the irony of Warren Buffett sounding off about how the rich should be paying more taxes while his own company, the second largest corporation on planet earth, owes the Internal Revenue Service $1 billion in back taxes, simply isn't being honest.
World's third wealthiest person in the world; the majority stockholder in the company in question (worth $105 billion); has another little side business worth $79.7 billion (Berkshire Hathaway Junior); is personally worth $47 billion today; ...and his company has wrangled with the IRS for years to avoid paying $1 billion in taxes. And he's still not paid it.
If he were like the rest of us, he would have had to pony up immediately and wrangled later.
He should go to NYC and surrender to Occupy Wall Street.
World's third wealthiest person in the world; the majority stockholder in the company in question (worth $105 billion); has another little side business worth $79.7 billion (Berkshire Hathaway Junior); is personally worth $47 billion today; ...and his company has wrangled with the IRS for years to avoid paying $1 billion in taxes. And he's still not paid it.
If he were like the rest of us, he would have had to pony up immediately and wrangled later.
He should go to NYC and surrender to Occupy Wall Street.