theHRguy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL: Nearly 77% of the Forbes 400 Have Given 5% or Less of their Net Worth to Charitymedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down13
arrow-up1160arrow-down1external-linkTIL: Nearly 77% of the Forbes 400 Have Given 5% or Less of their Net Worth to Charitymedium.comtheHRguy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·2 months agoThe majority just give enough to lessen their tax burden. Should have at least a 50% wealth tax on anyone on the Forbes 400. Fucking vampires.
minus-squarelinearchaos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoHell I’d settle for 28. Wonder how many of them are paying closer to zero.
minus-squarenot_woody_shaw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThe problem is 100% of what. There are so many paper tricks to make a billionaires income add up to zero. “100% of all assets and income over a billion” might work, but you still have the problem of whose opinion do you take on the value of an asset.
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago100% of income. If they hide income, they’re a criminal.
minus-squareObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago The majority just give enough to lessen their tax burden. There is no amount of charity you can give that results in you having more money than if you hadn’t, Kramer.
The majority just give enough to lessen their tax burden. Should have at least a 50% wealth tax on anyone on the Forbes 400. Fucking vampires.
Hell I’d settle for 28. Wonder how many of them are paying closer to zero.
Why not 100%?
The problem is 100% of what. There are so many paper tricks to make a billionaires income add up to zero.
“100% of all assets and income over a billion” might work, but you still have the problem of whose opinion do you take on the value of an asset.
100% of income. If they hide income, they’re a criminal.
There is no amount of charity you can give that results in you having more money than if you hadn’t, Kramer.