This pillar of the capitalist community and CEO of the corporate conglomerate Berkshire Hathway, continues to press Congress to raise taxes wealthy people like him. When congressional Republicans answered him by proposing a voluntary check-off box on tax-filing forms for people who want to pay more taxes, Buffet threw down a gauntlet. Speaking with Time magazine's Rana Foroohar, Buffett said (with a chuckle, according to the reporter): “It restores my faith in human nature to think that there are people who have been around Washington all this time and are not yet so cynical as to think that ...