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Avuncular billionaire in- vestor Warren Buf- fett on Monday wrote a screed in the New York Times in which he calls for higher taxes on the wealthy because they pay so little in comparison with the little people he professes to want to help.

Don't "coddle" me, Uncle Warren tells Uncle Sam: "While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks."

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Taxes

He laments his personal tax rate of 17.4 percent, which he notes is lower than the actual tax rates of his non-billionaire underlings.

There are several problems with the billionaire investor's...

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