A Changing Tune from Warren Buffett?

Warren Buffett took some heat recently for publicly objecting to Coca-Cola’s new executive pay plan but abstaining from the vote with Berkshire-Hathaway’s shares instead of voting no. He also appears to be changing his tune on a few other issues on which he was once very vocal and political. Read the new interview with Fortune.

Why do you love paying individual taxes but hate paying corporate taxes?

I will not pay a dime more of individual taxes than I owe, and I won’t pay a dime more of corporate taxes than we owe. And that’s very simple. In my own case, I offered one time to match a voluntary payment that any Senators pay, and I offered to triple any voluntary payment that Mitch McConnell made, but they never took me up on it.

Actually, [Berkshire’s] tax rate is pretty high if you look at it. But if it could be lower, I would have it lower. I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire’s tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.