obama's rich man Warren Buffett owes back taxes

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    i won't believe it until prison planet covers it
     
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    From BigReb's link:
    Seems Obama's advisers have an issue with paying taxes, but other "rich" are supposed to take up the slack. :rolleyes:
     
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    So I guess he really was paying less than his secretary.
     
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    you do know that berkshire is a publicly traded corporation, right?


    fail
     
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    Does he have ownership of the company?
     
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    Oh this is too funny!
     
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    i hold exxon stock in my 401 (k). does that mean that i'm responsible for paying their taxes? :lol:

    try not tot fall off the left side of the bell curve
     
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    Start, for example, with his grossly disingenuous recent claim that, as he wrote in The New York Times, he paid only 17 percent of his income last year to the government -- even as many working stiffs who make far less than him coughed up higher percentages.

    Read more: Warren Buffett’s hokey tax-hike call--Editorial - NYPOST.com
     
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