At least set the example man.

“Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the country, wants to pay more taxes and thinks his super-rich friends should too.

Buffett, who is estimated to be worth more than $47 billion, called on Congress to commit to “shared sacrifice” and raise taxes on people earning more than $1 million. Buffett said the rich are “coddled” by Congress “as if we were spotted owls or some other endangered species.”

“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,” Buffett wrote in a Sunday New York Times Op-ed.

President Obama cited Buffett’s op-ed today during his remarks at the first stop on his presidential Midwest bus tour. The president said Buffett’s call for taxing the wealthy shows that his “balanced” approach to deficit reduction is the best option.

Obama said Buffett enjoyed a lower tax rate because the majority of his income comes from capital gains, which are taxed at a lower rate.

“You don’t get those tax breaks,” Obama said to the Cannon Falls, Minn. audience. “You’re paying more than that and I think you’re a little less wealthy than he is.”

Ah, but the Devil in the details. It turns out that Buffet has a bit of a problem practicing what he preaches. Buffet is worth more than the Federal Government has on hand in cash. So if he really believed what he says he could simply right a check and lend a “helping hand”.

But the fact is that the “Oracle of the Midwest” is full of crap. Turns out that he’s actually a master of getting out of paying his share than paying it. Note:

“NetJets, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., this week sued the Internal Revenue Service over what it called an “illegal” $643 million tax assessment.

The IRS had determined that NetJets had failed to collect a “ticket tax” from its customers—the same tax that’s paid by passengers every time they fly on a commercial flight.

“The IRS’s assessments in this case improperly extend application of the ticket tax beyond commercial airline and charter passengers, to persons who own the aircraft on which they fly,” the company said in the suit.

NetJets also claimed that the IRS hadn’t attempted to assess such taxes on rival fractional-jet businesses, placing the company “at a significant disadvantage.”

Not the first time a Buffet owned company tried to ditch or get back at the IRS. In fact his company owes the IRS over 1 Billion dollars right now that it hasn’t paid.

Come on man! You believe what you say? Then pony up. Set the example.

Liberal = Hypocrite.