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To: chickadee

There’s nothing preventing them from giving their fortunes to government or doling it out to the poor.


3 posted on 11/19/2010 12:54:10 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
There’s nothing preventing them from giving their fortunes to government or doling it out to the poor.

Sure there is - the fact that most of their income is in tax-sheltered foundations. Like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, they create foundations, shelter their stock holdings by placing them in the foundations, then donate to each other's foundations for the tax write off.
20 posted on 11/19/2010 1:09:06 PM PST by chickadee
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