Posted on 12/01/2015 11:30:28 PM PST by Timpanagos1
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares “during our lives†— holdings currently worth more than $45 billion — to charitable purposes.
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My response would be ‘gee thanks dad’.
Notice how these things never seem to improve anything noticeable?
$44.5 billion is not what it used to be.
He could give it to NASA if they’d increase speed on Mars programs or something concrete.
I think its likely that before he dies, facebook wouldn’t be worth as much as it does now, so there wouldn’t be much to donate to his daughter
That’s a lot of money and with a lot of power. I suspect the money will go to liberal causes. That kind of money makes Soros look poor.
He says it will be while he is alive.
better yet, eliminate that stupid facebook!
Have they decided to raise their daughter as a boy?
Liberal scumbags using the birth of their own daughter to promulgate a tax dodge in the name of fake generosity.
Oh yeah - their daughter's name is "Max," and I'll bet they dare anyone to question its overt, grotesque, deliberately provocative masculinity.
Everything is an advertisement for Hillary with liberal freaks.
It does smell like a tax scam, a big tax scan to hide more than $44 billion.
You can also bet that with this “donation,” the Democrats will make laws specifically so that this money can cleanly be funneled into Democratic campaigns and liberal causes.
It’s like a baby, the size of the solar system, with a ball peen hammer.
OK, this guy pays 18% income tax.
(instead of 36% for earned income)
perhaps someone could explain exactly
what ‘social good ‘ this guy has performed for society.
that he should pay half the going rate
Facebook has what, 12k employees?
One thing I don't like is that freedom of speech doesn't exist on that site. My account has been suspended a few times without explanation. Since Facebook won't tell me why, I can only assume it doesn't like conservative viewpoints.
I'd rather workers getting an honest wage have that money to spend as they choose. Having a bunch of know-it-all billionaires doling it out to pet projects, with very little to show for it, doesn't really help the human condition.
Keep in mind Zuckerberg tried to sell his daughter’s name to Comrade Xi for access to the China market.
This is all media nonsense. I read he will give less than a billion a year or some such. That the vast majority of his wealth is staying in his hands for decades.
P.S. Xi declined.
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