Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth

• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That makes two of us I guess.

  You said that you don’t know how it works, I can’t really respond to that.

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  • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You said that philanthropy is not misused to avoid taxes—that is definitely wrong, but if you want to believe it, please do.

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    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not going to make a blanket claim like “philanthropy is not misused to avoid taxes”, because of course in some limited cases it is, but your assertion that the motivation for the Gates foundation is to avoid taxes is baseless. It’s a common idea that you’ve subscribed to, but you’re unable to back it up with even a vague idea.

      The Gates Foundation has made Gates’ significantly less wealthy.

      I’ll ask you directly: why would you become less wealthy in order to avoid tax?

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