It’s still giving money away though? Why would you want there to be taxes on charity?
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Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months agoMaking money/influence. It’s such a scam his “Bill and Melinda Charity” (no taxes on charities).
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s more nuanced though. Here’s how rich people use charities to gain wealth:
Rich person has tons of money that would be taxed if bill Y passes. Rich person creates a charity and donated 20% of what they would had to pay to the IRS to the charity, with that money the charity uses half for good causes and half is given to X lobby company, which then lobbies politicians to avoid passing that bill.
In the end, the rich person saved 80% of what they would had to pay.
Yeah, 10% went to good causes but imagine what the society could afford if 100% went through instead of 0.
This is a very rough outline of how they do it, but the summary is that they use charities to donate to lobbies while skipping taxes on the donation itself.
binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, 10% went to good causes but imagine what the society could afford if 100% went through instead of 0.
It’s the US, so more weapons I presume.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s the sentiment that allows these rich fucks to avoid paying taxes without big backlash. First focus on collecting, then on spending…
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The point here is that in many jurisdictions doing charity exempts you from certain taxes, and it is possible to shuffle money around under the disguise of philanthropy while still getting all the financial benefits like an actual charity
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well that’s disgusting, ain’t it. 🫤
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Amen
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Because they are tax avoidance mechanism first and charity seconds.
Money is a brokering system of power, charitues being tax free makes these entities unaccountable to democratic institurions.
That’s how we ended up with this infection of corrupt megachurches.
The “prosperity gospel” is billionaire-serving propaganda. It empowers their formation, growth and necessary abuses that come from such widespread exploitation.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gotcha. That sounds very bad indeed.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Giving away money? You sweet summer child.
Research don’t want “his” (the foundations) money, it comes with so many strings attached all your lives work now belongs to the B&M foundation.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You sweet summer child.
Alright dude, I don’t know much about the foundation, sorry. 🤷♂️
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Search the web for “polio”
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Google en passant.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
(no taxes on charities).
What type of taxes are you talking about?
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Their pr firm seems to function very well at least.
Guess you’re going to whitewash bezos, musk and zuckerberg next?
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the ends don’t justify the means.
Hitler experimented on hundreds of thousands of Jews and the medical world benefited from it greatly.
does that mean you’re going to nuance the Nazi regime because they “did some good”?
no amount of good is worth the ounce of evil used to make it.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every dictator did “some good work”, are you thinking they are good people?
IMO your moral compass need maintenance.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lol no. Of all the sleazy and greasy millionaires, Gates is one of the few whose actions speaks for themselves. Dude has been doing noble causes for most of my life.
I’m all for talking shit about the rich, but it better be true.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
His pr firm really works well.
Check out when elon ditched his pr firm. He went frm that loved lil crazy fun type to what he really is.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Name one bad historical person that didn’t do at least some good.
Your moral compass is broken.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 months ago
The charity did more than some good though.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not how it works, it’s not like “I do some good, now I can do some bad”. It does not even out.
Bad people doesn’t become good because “some good things came out of it”.
If you do bad, then you are bad.