tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post1160571381801071056..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Misplaced GratitudeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-84320929079495653442010-11-18T10:15:14.288-06:002010-11-18T10:15:14.288-06:00And, as if there were any reason to still grant hi...And, as if there were any reason to still grant him the benefit of the doubt after that (or, like me, you missed <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1442383020071114" rel="nofollow">that bit of news</a>), his "<a href="http://gusvanhorn.blogspot.com/2010/08/sic-transit-dignitas-donatorum.html" rel="nofollow">giving pledge</a>" should eradicate that.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-20214616114062716112010-11-18T09:12:35.696-06:002010-11-18T09:12:35.696-06:00Hi Gus,
My respect for Warren Buffett disappeared ...Hi Gus,<br />My respect for Warren Buffett disappeared when he lobbied for the expansion of the death tax. Previously, even though he had profited greatly by exploiting that law, I had withheld judgement on the basis that he hadn't made the law, had not (until then) publicly endorsed the law and, it could be argued, that he provided a necessary service to those being victimized by that law in that family owned businesses were broken up or sold at fire-sale prices to meet the IRS demands and it would have been worse without Buffett's activities. Until then he was a non-philosophical businessman taking the world as he found it; afterwards he was explicitly a looter. <br /><br />Now he may have already had the looter philosophy in place prior to his political activities but I had withheld judgement because I didn't know that for a fact. Just like a college student who might take government loans is not necessarily morally suspect whereas one who lobbies for their expansion is. <br /><br />C. AndrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com