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Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Warren Buffett: Hypocritical and Factually Incorrect in Calling for Higher Taxes
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, August 18 2011
Want to silence a liberal?  Simply ask anyone demanding higher taxes to produce copies of their own tax returns.  Many who insist on tax increases most loudly and sanctimoniously, including Barack Obama himself, didn’t themselves pay Uncle Sam at the rates they advocate.  So try it.  You’ll likely witness an amusing deer-in-the-headlights expression, some stuttering and then some sort of preposterous rationalization as to why they didn’t.  The issue took on renewed relevance this week when The New York Times ran a commentary by Warren Buffett entitled…
 
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"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement -- he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.So, at the eleventh hour…[more]
  
 
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