No bigger hipocrite or lucky individual out there.  Love to hear the answers, but please keep in mind those on the EC might have already gone to bed.  We have to get up early to make this country work.  I'll enjoy laughing at the response in the morning.  

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i will make sure and check in with Shawshank tomorrow morning..

But excellent trolling there.

To know that he is a smart businessman that maximizes his advantages.  However, he is also a hypocrite preaching for higher taxes when he's structured deals that are tax avoidance strategies.  Trump gets a lot of flack for tax minimization.  Uncle Warren shouldn't get a pass because the left loves his folksy image.  

Uncle Warren opposed the Keystone Pipeline, but he also owns a railroad that ships a lot of oil.  Very convenient for him to join the Liberal opposition, but also protect his interests.  

Critics of Buffett and his tax strategies don't really understand that what he does is not illegal and is socially progressive.  He doesn't avoid taxes.  What he does is avoid taxable income.  He does this by buying high cash flow companies that pay dividends and then canceling the dividends and using the extra income to buy more companies.  Additionally he improves efficiency where he can.  The result is no or very little taxable income.  So his wealth is on paper.  If he should ever sell any of his holdings, he will be taxed at the maximum possible rates.  But he's giving it all to charity.  This is all known as the Buffet Loophole and the IRS doesn't seem to care too much about it.  Why should you?

Every time I read one of your posts, hoping there will be some substance, all I get is a temporary drop in my IQ.   What do you have against pets and tantric healing?  Oh yeah.  Ignorance.

Is that he's a lucky coin flipper who now gets to influence public policy under the guise of a folky image.  CNBS eats this shit up, and spits its back out to the public that they should be agreeing with Uncle Warren because look at what I nice guy he is.  Other billionaires are a bit more open about their agendas instead of running a con game.  

I don't think there is any debate at all. Pipelines are by far the safest, not to mention economical way to transport oil.  

...I wasn't talking to you.

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...GAG is correct on safety records but the  KEYSTONE  is going to cut directly through the center of our nations largest aquafer  (underground water supply)  & a leak in that Korean & Chinese made steel pipe could destroy thousands of acres of farmland & make crop farming there a thing of the past, not to mention the fresh water supply for millions of people. In general I'm not against pipelines but the KEYSTONE does nothing for America, it carries dirty sulfur laden Canadian crude oil (that's use is banned in America) from Canada to a refinery in Houston to be loaded on tanker ships & distributed for the rest of the world to burn. It seems foolish for America to take that risk & only get the benefit of about 100 refinery jobs in Houston. I believe most U.S. citizens support for this dangerous boondoggle project was based on resisting government regulations for business projects, exactly one of the common goals of the Trump administration & the republican party.

Obama stalled the pipeline for years and years to please some doners.  And now obama will fly free on their private jets for the rest of his freeloading existence.  The pipeline will be ok snowflake.  Don't start a march about it.

That's some funny stuff there.  Personal attack that accuses me of being "submasculine" for leveling personal attacks.   Truth is definitely stranger than fiction sometimes.

Ok snowflakes.  All gather round now for a group hug.  Include Fido.  It's tough out there. Tear.

...Quite typical to get nothing but MORON right wing responses to anything factually submitted here , & I never said anything about a march that was the nazi's comment.

The oil shipped via the Keystone pipeline is some very nasty stuff, and quite frankly should NEVER be allowed south of the US/Canada border. The immediate risks of a leak are actually quite minimal, but keep in mind this pipeline is going to be used for decades and eventually there will be a leak, and although it's MUCH safer than moving the crude by rail, it's certainly not risk free and with no real benefits to the American people, except for a few thousand temporary jobs to build it and a much smaller handful of permanent jobs.

I hope you were drunk.  We basically agree on all of what you said about Keystone  except that you think it is safer than it really is.  The negative replies to my post are mindless driveling insults to progressives, and yet you somehow think they are somehow more correct on the issue?

Where we do agree is that Keystone is NOT in the interest of the American people.

Read what I said.  I was talking about Keystone XL specifically because of where it is.  As you say it will leak eventually and if it does so beneath a major reservoir system, it's going to be catastrophic.   Pipelines are safer than rail in general, but not Keystone at all.

Your words from a few posts above.

Focus on just this part of the sentence:  "than a pipeline, that is sure to leak, that runs under watershed and reservoirs that supply drinking water to millions of people downstream."  

"Trains carry all sorts of freight and they are a lot safer hauling oil than a pipeline"

You are taking a third of my sentence and absolutely misconstruing it by isolating it from the rest of the sentence, thereby changing the meaning of my statement.  That is not a valid reading of what I said.  Thats the kind of shit President Dumbo tries to pull and nobody is buying it.  I know you are smarter than that, but its been beaten to death, so I will just consider this diatribe over.

First of all, he's not -- except in his own alleged mind.  This is what he does.  He really has convinced himself that he's right and he'll ride it until he gets frustrated he can't beat you down with his pedantry.  You'll know this has happened when he tell's you you're TSTTT or threatens to award you a SPOTY.  Or compares you to me.  When he does the latter, be flattered because you'll know you've won.