Some of that used to be my money!!!!!
How much was given to the United States Citizens in need ?
He and Bluffett are two of the biggest BS artists in the world. Their wealth is in realized but as yet untaxable gains. The money they are “donating” is really all money that would go to taxes if they tried to convert these assets to cash. All they are doing is giving the money away so it can be spent the way they want, instead of into the government's hands so it can be spent the way the government wants.
I wouldn't really care except both of these dillholes have been in they arguing how the rest of us should be happy to give the government a bigger percentage of our money.
My response: You first - and a loud raspberry sound (which I don't know how to spell).
Ogawd a press release isn’t becoming of a saint wannabe.
His foundation doesn’t donate to causes in developed countries. I think he’s an ass for that.
If Billy would give me just one of his billions, I promise to use half of it to “save the world”.
Gates is darned near perfect. If he would publicly oppose abortion as a handy remedy for the consequence of rampant recreational sex, he could make the world an even better place.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Just imagine how many more lives he could have saved if he had just given that money to the federal government, where it rightly belongs. /s
All politics aside, the hyper-rich, as I’ll call them, only have theoretical wealth. When you have amassed, for argument’s sake, a billion dollars, unless it’s in tangible assets (like real estate or similar), you’ll never be able to liquidate it all to realize the full wealth.
Put a different way, in Gates’ instance, he has the vast percentage of his wealth tied up in the stock of his own company. If he were to begin selling it, the stock price would plummet, thereby lowering his net wealth by billions. His $60 billion in wealth would conceivably fall by more than half. Proof? Imagine you have a bunch of Microsoft stock and the primary stock holder on the planet is selling millions of shares. Your reaction to this? “Something must be up. I better sell mine!” The price reaction to all these sellers? A stock price in the veritable toilet.
So these extremely wealthy people really are limited to giving away their wealth and having those distributed benefactors liquidate or otherwise convert the wealth to liquid assets (read: cash).
The world won’t be saved through Charity. When on Earth, Jesus wasn’t impressed by the philanthropy of the wealthy - why should we be?
Money wasted on the UN
This is all Blah Blah Blah. So these peoples lives are saved. Now who is going to clothe and feed them for the rest of thier lives in some third world hell hole? Knock, knock, knock, here comes the UN with an “international tax”. (hold on to your hats, whiteys).
“If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower the global population by perhaps 10 or 15 percent." [i.e. a billion deaths] - Bill Gates
I wish I were that good! Chicks would be after me in every country on the planet!
Windows still sucks.
Always has.
Always will.
