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This is the same Buffet who argues against abolishing the inheritance tax even though he's arranged things so that almost all of his money will go untaxed. Also, the inheritance tax helps him buy companies cheap. (It forces the children to sell.)

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I think it's a stretch to call Buffet anything but consistent on his stance about inheritance tax.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/...

Key (and famous) quote: "[the perfect amount to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing."

Notice the date - 1986.

I don't have sources offhand, but Buffett's been saying this for years. He criticized Bush's tax cuts back in the day, too. I don't see anything wrong with argument, "The government shouldn't be letting me and other billionaires slip through this loophole."

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