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• pcolon

  2009-03-09 10:43:11

  The IRS, which BTW like the Federal Reserve Bank, are illegal and unconstitutional, would quickly stomp it's boot on any faith-based or non-profit organization with questionable or business practices. However there are some caveats where some claim a large portion of incoming donations as 'housekeeping or administrative costs'.
  
  Here, once again, the Gates entourage, is changing the meaning of words (philanthropy) for their own personal gain.
  
  Welcome to "The new and improved 21st Century Organized Crime". Brought to you and sponsored by your Federal, State and local government agencies.

• Dave

  2009-03-09 12:57:14

  You are an idiot Roy.
  
  Buffet has not given money to de Gates foundation. He has put all of his Berkshire Hathaway stock worth 30 billion at the time in a trustfund which donates 5% of the stock to the gates foundation each year under the condition that the foundation spends all of the donation in that year. This means the Gates foundations recieves a bunch of stock each year and has to sell that stock each year.
  
  When Buffet dies the remaining shares in the trustfund and all other assets of Warren buffet will be divided amongst several charitable foundations and will not be given to his children who will recieve only a 'minor' inheritance. So nearly all of Buffets fortyune will dissappear in philantropy.
  
  You ridiculous accusations are beyond belief. Someone donates most of his immense fortune to charity and you make a mockery of it by providing false information on it.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-03-09 13:04:45

  Dave,
  
  You don't seem familiar with what's known as 'pet' charities. Here is a recent article to bring you up to date.
  
  

  Known to his own friends and enemies alike as "Dr. Evil," Berman has perfected the art of setting up non-profit "charitable" groups to advance corporate interests.

• Dave

  2009-03-09 13:14:37

  @Roy
  
  You do not seem to understand what I wrote.
  
  Nearly all of Warren Buffet fortune will flow to charities. If not at all while he is alive than after he dies. That information is easy to verify.
  
  If any tax is evaded that will thus also go to charity

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-03-09 13:42:27

  It's not about Buffett. As the Times put it:
  
  

  As with all good parodies, there's a grain of truth in a fake news story on the Web that says Bill Gates could face another antitrust investigation — this time for "monopolistic charity practices."
  
  "The danger isn't in what people do tell you — it's in what they don't," departing foundation CEO Patty Stonesifer warned in the 2007 annual report.

• Gentoo User

  2009-03-09 16:16:07

  It’s not about Buffett.

  
  
  I think this is pretty much convincing proof that most of the time you don't even know what you're talking about. But this will look great later, when you start referring to it as "evidence", as with everything else.