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bioemerl  ·  2752 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Buffett Calls Trump’s Bluff and Releases His Tax Data

    Mr. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest men in the world, went on to say: “My federal income tax for the year was $1,845,557

Two million dollars? One of the richest men in the world, and only paying 2 million dollars in taxes?

    Mr. Buffett did deduct from his income make up just a tiny portion of the more than $2.85 billion he donated to charity last year

2.85 billion dollars donated to charity in a single year, but with only a 11 million dollar income?

Fuck, that's the real news story.

Edit: Not to say that trump shouldn't pay taxes as well, and is a scumbag for not paying them. However, I think trump being a scumbag is a given, and this is all just a repeating and repeating of the same fact to really drill it into centrists minds that trump is NOT a viable president. That isn't necessary here, and I feel no need to address that fact.