{"id":24,"date":"2007-10-31T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-10-31T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:23:42","slug":"warren-buffett-passes-the-buck-or-a-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett passes the buck (or a billion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the richest guys in the world complains that he doesn&#8217;t pay enough taxs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2202020,00.html\">http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2202020,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not debating the issue of whether the rich get better treatment under the tax laws than the poor or middle class do, I just think he full of crap and is making comments in the press for some political reason.<\/p>\n<p>If he thinks he isn&#8217;t paying enough, just don&#8217;t fill out your tax form to squeeze every deduction.\u00a0 If he honestly feels that one or more deduction is unfair to the poor, or an advantage to the rich,\u00a0don&#8217;t take it.\u00a0 Put your money where your mouth is.<\/p>\n<p>Falling back on the old saw that he&#8217;s &#8220;only following the rules&#8221; is a bunch of crap.\u00a0 Deductions are &#8220;allowed&#8221;, not &#8220;required&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Mr. Buffett didn&#8217;t get where he is by following everyrule and law to the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the richest guys in the world complains that he doesn&#8217;t pay enough taxs. http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2202020,00.html I&#8217;m not debating the issue of whether the rich get better treatment under the tax laws than the poor or middle class do, I just think he full of crap and is making comments in the press for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,44,43],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-income","tag-taxes","tag-warren-buffett"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squirrelfordinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}