In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler take on the “fake magnanimity” of billionaires like Mitt Romney and Warren Buffett suggesting they pay more taxes.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: You read that Tom Steyer, the left-wing Stanford-area activist guy who ran for president, who made his fortune funding financing coal plants in Indonesia, says, “I need to be taxed more.” He’s worth about three billion.

And then Mitt [Romney] came out. Remember Mitt? Mitt said that he thinks that people should be taxed more, and he wants to pay. No, you’re not a big humanitarian, Mitt. You’re almost worth a billion dollars.

So, what you’re saying at the end of your life, you think that you should pay a few hundred thousand more out of your multi-billion-dollar fortune or hundreds-of-million-dollar fortune. But young Mitt didn’t say that. And young people who are making 80, 90, 100,000 and trying to buy a house don’t say that.

Getting so tired of this fake magnanimity, humanity by these very wealthy, wealthy people who say they need to be taxed more. [Like] Warren........

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