Posted on 08/04/2010 11:13:07 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
They’ll put their money in private foundations and retain control.
The private foundations are nothing more than sociological think tanks and population steering mechanisms.
Where’s SOROS?????
and they will spend another chunk of their fortunes electing people who want to give away my money
AMEN!!!! FOUNDATIONS ARE SLUSH FUNDS.
Those 40 billionaires want to give away half their wealth before the Bush tax cuts expire.
And tax free?
Presumably this money is currently invested and being used to grow new wealth. So we take half of this out of the productive economy to be consumed, won’t we all be worse off?
Another way to look at this, if these 40 billionaires gave 100% of their wealth to the US Treasury, it would hardly make a dent in the debt.
Only half?
BFD.
Why are they keeping so much? Can’t they live on $250K like the rest of the “rich” whose federal taxes are going up to 40%?
“And tax free?”
~yeah, that too.
MANDATORY work for welfare...FREE CHECKUP!!!
Also, apart from these foundation slush funds which provide comfortable living support for liberals, it depends what you mean by “charity.”
For Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, history suggests that it mostly means killing off babies, to reduce the population.
Hi! My name is CHARITY!!!
Well that was a quick move up from 34 just a few hours ago.
See here :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2564439/posts
If they really had the courage of their convictions, they would give it ALL away and live in caves like hermits, on roots and berries, until called to the choir celestial.
Good for them - it’s their money, they can do as they wish, and if they want to give to charity, so be it.
As long as they don’t ask the government to force the rest of us to give more of our money in taxes for their pet causes...
Can we declare the U.S. debt a charity cause?
Big deal. I’ve pledged to have children with Salma Hayek.
My quick perusal of the 40 names tells me that most of them are liberals.
This could be nothing more than a political ploy to keep liberals in power.
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