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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Billionaires Seeking Welfare

Billionaire Warren Buffett famously says taxes should be increased.

Well, no wonder! He's trying to get on -- if he isn't already on -- the moral equivalent of welfare himself by buying into Goldman Sachs at a time when that firm's former CEO is lobbying Congress furiously for a tax-funded bailout package that will benefit Goldman Sachs.

More on Buffett benefiting from a bailout in a Lawrence B. Lindsey article here
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