Warren Buffett, left, Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates stand together, Sunday, June 25, 2006, in New York, shortly after Buffett's announcement that he would be starting to make an annual donation of about $1.5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Associated Press
As the debate concerning taxing the rich continues in Washington, the Deseret News and other media jump at every opportunity to publish quotes from Warren Buffett when he advocates he and others of wealth should pay more or higher rates.
In most every instance, those in the media only provide half of such stories. They prove themselves of equal or greater hypocrisy by not including in such reporting that while Mr. Buffett advocates for higher taxes on the one hand, his company Berkshire Hathaway is and has been for many years battling with the Internal Revenue Service to avoid the federal taxes of more than $1 billion that IRS claims is owed.
Any story on the subject of taxes and Mr. Buffett's position thereon is misleading and dishonest unless both parts are included.
Stuart Curtis
South Jordan
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It would be great for once if letters and comments dealt with facts rather than political spin. The letter writer is incensed the "biased" media doesn't report that Buffett wants higher taxes on the wealthy but is in tax court to fight More..
Berkshire Hathaway is also moving dividend payments forward to this year(as are many Corporations) to avoid the higher taxes next year. This allows Buffett and many of his friends to avoid millions in taxes. He is truly a hypocrite.
Did the letter writer bother to do any research into what Buffet's issues are with the IRS?
Obviously not.
If he had he would find out that:
The case involves a division of Berkshire Hathaway called NetJets. More..