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18. Billionaires exist essentially due to their exemption from taxes.
Wed May 28, 2025, 08:28 AM
May 28

Billionaires should not exist, period.

Buffet loves his country so much that he could not find it within himself to endorse Harris for president.

He doesn't like to intervene in many issues.

Sanders wrote to the billionaire businessman and asked him to “intervene” on behalf of 450 striking steelworkers, who face possible pay cuts and increased health-care costs.
Buffett cited Berkshire’s policy of allowing companies it owns to handle labor and personnel decisions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/30/warren-buffett-tells-bernie-sanders-he-wont-intervene-in-special-metals-strike.html

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