OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.
Warren Buffett, in a New York Times op-ed entitled “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich.”
Those are the first and last paragraphs. Everything in between is well worth reading, too.
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