{"id":816,"date":"2007-10-31T00:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/warren-should-quit-whining\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T00:14:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T04:14:18","slug":"warren-should-quit-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Warren Should Quit Whining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2202020,00.html\">Guardian Unlimited article<\/a>, billionaire Warren Buffett complains that he doesn&#8217;t pay enough in federal taxes. Well, golly, Warren, I do. I need the money I work for, I don&#8217;t have billions in assets I could sell. The money taken from every paycheck is money I need. Sure, I tend to get a refund each year, you know, the government gives back the money it shouldn&#8217;t have taken from me. But, the interest they add for holding it for up to a year is nice. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, that&#8217;s right, they don&#8217;t pay interest on that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, every year when I do my taxes, at the bottom of the form is a line item for money I would like to VOLUNTARILY donate to the government. If Buffett feels he isn&#8217;t paying what he should, by all means, he should check that box and cut a check. What he shouldn&#8217;t do is encourage a government who cannot even spell efficiency to raise taxes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Guardian Unlimited article, billionaire Warren Buffett complains that he doesn&#8217;t pay enough in federal &hellip; <a title=\"Warren Should Quit Whining\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=816\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warren Should Quit Whining<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}