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LT42 Gates pumped the bones of 20B of his own cash into the Gates Foundation

You realize this for income tax purposes right? If he just paid his taxes he would 1. Have had to paid a far greater sum and 2. Wouldn’t have control over the use of the money. Billionaire nonprofits are a complete crock of shit and should never be lauded as anything other than self serving bs.

zackster it’s 20B, Zackster, since July. Many organisations and countries have benefited from the foundation. What difference does it make whether its altruistic or for “tax purposes”? The outcomes are the same. Unless someone can show me evidence he’s profiting off his own foundation (he’s not) then its all a load of presumptive nonsense. And before any knucklehead has me down as a “Gates Fan”, its possible to understand how his foundation works and still be skeptical of his motives in other areas. Funky wrote “hes profiting off his foundation”. If hes doing it just for taxes then he’s “saving” money, not profiting, which holds a more sinister connotation implied, right?

Corporate tax helps build infrastructure, roads, bridges, hospitals and schools etc etc.

By not paying it or by using tax avoidance / minimisation schemes, you’re doing a disservice to society and putting added pressure on others to find that money.

I’ll fire the bants machine up shortly.

A 20B donation kinda takes the edge off though. That’s 20 thousand million. Hardly the work of the average tax dodger.

LT42 multiple countries that “benefit” from his work have asking him to use his funding to set up a means of production so that they can start to become self sufficient and make their own polio vaccines, insulin, ex ex. He never complies. Instead he keeps them reliant on the foundation.

LT42 and let’s remember how he made his money too. He didn’t invent a thing. He was a patent scammer who worked his ass off to put others out of business.

zackster I know you have a hard on for him, Zackster, but the point of the chat here is that Funky amd the rest of the Facebook warriors think he profits nefariously off his foundation and infected everyone in Africa with AIDS. None of which is true.

zackster He was a patent scammer who worked his ass off to put others out of business

The Capitalist American Dream takes no prisoners.

For the record, Z. I don’t particularly like the guy, never have. The idea that he’s some kind of Darth Vader is total bollix though.

zackster both things can be true - a regular at Epstein bunga bunga parties allegedly, shady tax schemes (which aren’t illegal, just cunty) etc etc and he can also give away billions which have absolutely helped developing countries.
Assumptions about him being in cahoots with the Chinese to profit off vaccines are just that, wild, baseless, assumptions/facebook conspiracy theories.

LT42 Assumptions about him being in cahoots with the Chinese to profit off vaccines are just that, wild, baseless, assumptions/facebook conspiracy theories.

While I don’t believe any of this to be true and agree with you I do think its worth mentioning that there is some creepy nazi-esque language in the foundation’s formation docs talking about population control. Could just be innocent miss wording but it invites the crazy theories

Funky Don’t forget he’s part of that paedo ring with the Hollywood actors and ex Democrat presidents.

Along_the_Wire i am not counting that one out.

How could anyone like that creppy cunt, full on sociopath. LT Zack hit nail on the head regards to the patents of vaccine’s etc it’s all business, these guys are all Liberial until it comes to paying fkn tax and looking after workers. Fact they won’t let Africa become self sufficient tells you all you need to know.

Getting back on track, can we please take a moment to acknowledge Trump’s diss to George Conway in calling him a disgusting albatross? Wonderful!

Funky How could anyone like that creppy cunt

Is there evidence that he wears shit trabbs?

You can peep some non marking Bostonians in here