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Mexico's new robber barons
International Herald Tribune ^ | August 27, 2007 | Eduardo Porter

Posted on 08/27/2007 12:26:12 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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To: SwinneySwitch
Double neg was mistake.

And thanks.

21 posted on 08/27/2007 3:58:54 PM PDT by Tribune7 (Michael Moore bought Haliburton)
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Bill Gates has given over $30 billion to charity over the years, or he’d probably be worth well over $100 billion. According to the article, Slim has only given $4 billion.


22 posted on 08/27/2007 7:25:38 PM PDT by rb22982
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Some of Bill Gates charities are for the extermination of babies. What a wonderful guy! [ /sarcasm ]

He is a proud sponsor to depopulate the world.

I disagree that killing babies is a charity...

23 posted on 08/27/2007 8:39:18 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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OK, let me rephrase-Gates has given away $30 billion of his own fortune to other things.


24 posted on 08/27/2007 8:41:55 PM PDT by rb22982
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I would guess that Gates and Buffet have "given" away only enough for them to avoid taxes.......

I would guess that each will be respectively be richer even with their "giveaways" because the won't have as much taxation....

and you know, wouldn't it be nice for you and I to direct where our money goes, like Gates and Buffet, instead of Uncle Sam.....

they can fund all their leftist crony ideas up the ying-yang..

25 posted on 08/28/2007 1:05:55 AM PDT by cherry
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Most of their income is long term capital gains which isn’t affected by tax deductions as far as I know. Pretty sure it only affects their gross income which while large for the common man is nothing to what he gains in dividends and long term capital gains.


26 posted on 08/28/2007 3:07:18 PM PDT by rb22982
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