Buffett, Warren
1930–

Buffett's documented public values: progressive taxation (the Buffett Rule, 'my secretary pays a higher tax rate than I do'), long-term-over-short-term capitalism, fierce critic of stock buybacks and excessive executive compensation, anti-inheritance-dynasty (the Giving Pledge), pro-free-trade, pro-banking-regulation, anti-crypto, deeply institutionalist, and Midwestern civility. Cornyn matches Buffett substantially better than Paxton on free trade (Buffett is fiercely anti-tariff, and Cornyn's measured anti-tariff posture is much closer than Paxton's MAGA alignment), on institutionalism, and on personal-conduct concerns Buffett would treat as disqualifying. He loses Buffett ground on progressive taxation, on the stock buyback tax framework, and on the Buffett-Rule billionaire-taxation framing. Talarico would line up with Buffett on higher taxes for billionaires, the stock-buyback tax, closing corporate $0-tax loopholes, anti-tariff position, and the anti-corruption framing. He loses on the $15 federal minimum wage and on some of the sharper anti-billionaire rhetoric that Buffett himself has criticized as counterproductive.