40 Billionaires Pledge to Give Away Half of Wealth
August 5th, 2010Yep, we can’t get those flying syringes fast enough.
Via: MSNBC:
A little over a year after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began hatching a plan over dinner to persuade America’s wealthiest people to give most of their fortunes to charity, more than three-dozen individuals and families have agreed to take part, campaign organizers announced Wednesday.
In addition to Buffett and Gates — America’s two wealthiest individuals, with a combined net worth of $90 billion, according to Forbes — 38 other billionaires have signed The Giving Pledge. They include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, film director George Lucas and investor Ronald Perelman.
They are doing this now in anticpation of the tax law changes.
Don’t buy that philanthropy Bs. Because that’s all it is.
Protect our wealth, and look good while we do it.
SHAMELESS.