Warren Buffett will pay $3B for Burger King to buy Tim Hortons

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    President Obama’s favorite billionaire has thrown him under the Burger King bus.

    Warren Buffett stuck one of his big Midas thumbs in Obama’s eye Tuesday by agreeing to pony-up $3 billion so the hamburger chain can buy a Canadian doughnut outfit — and avoid paying millions in U.S. corporate taxes by moving part of its headquarters to Ontario.

    Buffett made the move just a month after Obama denounced “inversion” tactics like this as an “unpatriotic tax loophole” and ordered regulatory changes to curb them.

    The White House declined to discuss this flame-broiled whopper of an embarrassment Tuesday.

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