Warren Buffet talks dividend voodoo

[mburbank]

He believes in the Capitalist Opium of the Masses, that he will one day be rich.

He also resents the concept of taxation period, in that he thinks his money should only go to things he agrees with. He espouses a universal sales tax on non essentials, but I imagine if that magically came to pass, he would still vigourously object to that money being spent on things he did not agree with. He is lately swing a Jefferson quote as if it were a roadkill cat, to the effect that a government large enough to do everything is large enough to take everything away. He ignores the fact that our government has been 'large enough to take it away' using it's military since probably the 1940's and as he embraces the Bush doctrine of global military supperiority, it will always be 'large enough to take it away'. Far from being a true Liberatarian, Vince wants a government that does only what he wants with it's cictizens money, and in fact finds it hard to concieve of anyone who osn't 'scum' or 'a liberal college professor' wanting anything besides what he wants. I believe this inability to respect the opinions of others coupled with his rage at any compelled expenditure outside his worldview, make him a Totalitarian.