President Obama’s favorite billionaire, Warren “Tax Me More” Buffett, likes to portray himself as a hard-charging capitalist who made his bundle on Wall Street and now just wants to give something back to the country that helped him become one of the world’s richest men.

But Buffett didn’t get where he is by ignoring the federal government, the 800-pound gorilla overshadowing every American boardroom.

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