I also do not care what he does with his own money. But, I really hate the way he complains that people who make less than 1% of what he makes don’t pay enough taxes, while he avoids many millions of taxes every year, because he has promised to eventually give billions to a foundation that benefits mostly Africans.
He earned his money in the US. If he wants to avoid US taxes by making donations, he should at least make his “donations” to benefit Americans.
What he is doing is worse than the multinational corporations headquartered in the US who pay no US taxes because they “earned” their income in another country and paid lower rate income taxes there.
You don’t like Gates, I understand. I don’t feel that way. He made his money, nobody was forced to comply with standards his organization set up, and now he is spending it. The tax diatribes from any High wealth individual are offensive. You don’t get that kind of wealth without ‘working the system’ as far as taxes go. Some of these guys(and girls) wouldn’t mind a %90 tax rate because their lives and choices have revolved around ways to not pay in general. Get mad or take an income tax course. I chose the latter. It really makes you made at the tax code.