PoliticalChic
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I'll put you down as being copacetic with boys growing up without a father in the home.
The Democrats will be so very proud of you.
Elephants On Bicycles…With Fish.
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I'll put you down as being copacetic with boys growing up without a father in the home.
The Democrats will be so very proud of you.
And when exactly did I say that? Hearing voices in your head?
PoliticalChic
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"Which party wants all children to have food, healthcare, decent housing, and a decent education?"
Easy peasy....
No one talks a better 'caring' than a Liberal.....but it is simply one more lie from your sort....low-life lying Liberals.
"'Tis the season for giving—and it turns out that conservatives and like-minded welfare skeptics more than hold their own when it comes to charity. So says Arthur C. Brooks in his new book Who Really Cares?: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism.
Arthur Brooks, a public policy professor at Syracuse University, sums up his own results thusly: Giving is dictated by "strong families, church attendance, earned income (as opposed to state-subsidized income), and the belief that individuals, not government, offer the best solution to social ills--all of these factors determine how likely one is to give."
"There's something incredibly satisfying, inherently, about voluntary giving,"...
The Giving Gap
Is the right more generous than the left?
reason.com
Did you read the book????
Just kiddin'......Liberals don't read books.
I'm unconvinced. I give money to NPR. A charitable expense but I doubt it helps any poor families get fed. Likewise, giving money to your church is fine and dandy but how much of that goes to feed poor families?
"Which party wants all children to have food, healthcare, decent housing, and a decent education?"
Easy peasy....
No one talks a better 'caring' than a Liberal.....but it is simply one more lie from your sort....low-life lying Liberals.
"'Tis the season for giving—and it turns out that conservatives and like-minded welfare skeptics more than hold their own when it comes to charity. So says Arthur C. Brooks in his new book Who Really Cares?: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism.
Arthur Brooks, a public policy professor at Syracuse University, sums up his own results thusly: Giving is dictated by "strong families, church attendance, earned income (as opposed to state-subsidized income), and the belief that individuals, not government, offer the best solution to social ills--all of these factors determine how likely one is to give."
"There's something incredibly satisfying, inherently, about voluntary giving,"...
The Giving Gap
Is the right more generous than the left?
reason.com
Did you read the book????
Just kiddin'......Liberals don't read books.
PoliticalChic
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I'm unconvinced. I give money to NPR. A charitable expense but I doubt it helps any poor families get fed. Likewise, giving money to your church is fine and dandy but how much of that goes to feed poor families?
"Which party wants all children to have food, healthcare, decent housing, and a decent education?"
Easy peasy....
No one talks a better 'caring' than a Liberal.....but it is simply one more lie from your sort....low-life lying Liberals.
"'Tis the season for giving—and it turns out that conservatives and like-minded welfare skeptics more than hold their own when it comes to charity. So says Arthur C. Brooks in his new book Who Really Cares?: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism.
Arthur Brooks, a public policy professor at Syracuse University, sums up his own results thusly: Giving is dictated by "strong families, church attendance, earned income (as opposed to state-subsidized income), and the belief that individuals, not government, offer the best solution to social ills--all of these factors determine how likely one is to give."
"There's something incredibly satisfying, inherently, about voluntary giving,"...
The Giving Gap
Is the right more generous than the left?
reason.com
Did you read the book????
Just kiddin'......Liberals don't read books.
1."'Tis the season for giving—and it turns out that conservatives and like-minded welfare skeptics more than hold their own when it comes to charity. So says Arthur C. Brooks in his new book Who Really Cares?: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism.
2. Arthur Brooks, a public policy professor at Syracuse University, sums up his own results thusly: Giving is dictated by "strong families, church attendance, earned income (as opposed to state-subsidized income), and the belief that individuals, not government, offer the best solution to social ills--all of these factors determine how likely one is to give."
3. ...those who say they strongly oppose redistribution by government to remedy income inequality give over 10 times more to charity than those who strongly support government intervention, with a difference of $1,627 annually versus $140 to all causes.
4. Brooks finds that households with a conservative at the helm gave an average of 30 percent more money to charity in 2000 than liberal households (a difference of $1,600 to $1,227). The difference isn't explained by income differential—in fact, liberal households make about 6 percent more per year.
5. Poor, rich, and middle class conservatives all gave more than their liberal counterparts. ... "People who do not value freedom and opportunity simply don't value individual solutions to social problems very much. It creates a culture of not giving."
6. In 2004, self-described liberals younger than thirty belonged to one-third fewer organizations in their communities than young conservatives. In 2002, they were 12 percent less likely to give money to charities, and one-third less likely to give blood." Liberals, he says, give less than conservatives because of religion, attitudes about government, structure of families, and earned income.
7. ...young liberals are less likely do nice things for their nearest and dearest, too. Compared with young conservatives, "a lower percentage said they would prefer to suffer than let a loved one suffer, that they are not happy unless the loved one is happy, or that they would sacrifice their own wishes for those they love."
8. "Tangible evidence suggests that charitable giving makes people prosperous, healthy, and happy. And that on its own is a huge argument to protect institutions of giving in this country, as individuals, in communities, and as a nation. We simply do best, as a nation, when people are free and they freely give."
"There's something incredibly satisfying, inherently, about voluntary giving,"...
PoliticalChic
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14. Are Fathers Necessary?
“For all of recorded history, the need to explain why fathers are necessary would have been regarded as, well, unnecessary. It would have been like explaining why water, or air, is necessary. But we live at a time in which the obvious is routinely denied.
A boy has no built-in understanding about how to be a man — meaning a good and responsible man. Male nature is wild — most obviously regarding sex and violence. If a boy does not have a father who models how a man controls himself, he will most likely not know how to control himself — let alone want to. That's why most males in prison for violent crimes grew up without a father.
After days of riots in the UK in 2011, quite like the 2020 riots in America, Cristina Odone wrote a column for The London Telegraph whose title says it all: "London riots: Absent fathers have a lot to answer for." In the column, she wrote, "The majority of rioters are gang members... Like the overwhelming majority of youth offenders behind bars, these gang members have one thing in common: no father at home."
“It was the misfortune of black Americans that they were just on the verge of passing through the immigrant experience when damaging ideas about welfare and the lenient attitude about crime took hold. It could have happened to the Italians, Germans, Jews or Irish, but luckily for them, there were no Liberals around to “help” when they arrived.”
Coulter
“For all of recorded history, the need to explain why fathers are necessary would have been regarded as, well, unnecessary. It would have been like explaining why water, or air, is necessary. But we live at a time in which the obvious is routinely denied.
A boy has no built-in understanding about how to be a man — meaning a good and responsible man. Male nature is wild — most obviously regarding sex and violence. If a boy does not have a father who models how a man controls himself, he will most likely not know how to control himself — let alone want to. That's why most males in prison for violent crimes grew up without a father.
After days of riots in the UK in 2011, quite like the 2020 riots in America, Cristina Odone wrote a column for The London Telegraph whose title says it all: "London riots: Absent fathers have a lot to answer for." In the column, she wrote, "The majority of rioters are gang members... Like the overwhelming majority of youth offenders behind bars, these gang members have one thing in common: no father at home."
“It was the misfortune of black Americans that they were just on the verge of passing through the immigrant experience when damaging ideas about welfare and the lenient attitude about crime took hold. It could have happened to the Italians, Germans, Jews or Irish, but luckily for them, there were no Liberals around to “help” when they arrived.”
Coulter
I think difference is explained by income differential. My experience has been that poorer people, regardless of their politics, are more generous as a percent of their income than richer people. Secretaries tended to give as much, in actual dollars, as their bosses when I ran our office charity collection.
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...i am more charitable with full body massage than women.
PoliticalChic
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Not to fear......I provide your education:
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders donated just over 1% of his total income last year, and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren donated 5.5% according to her tax information.” UVa Student Asks Beto Why He Gave Less To Charity Than A College Student
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released 15 years of tax returns on Sunday, showing that she and her husband earned $1.9 million last year and gave $27,000 to charity — or 1.4 percent. Harris reported no charitable giving at all during her first three years as California’s attorney general.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and her husband donated $6,600 of their $338,500 income to charity last year, or just under 2 percent,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and her husband made $215,000 last year and gave $3,750 to charity, also just under 2 percent.
When Mitt Romney finally relented under pressure and released his tax returns in 2012, they showed that he and his wife had given away $4 million out of the $13.7 million they took in during the previous year, or 29.4 percent. Romney didn’t even deduct $1.8 million of donations that year so that he could live up to his statement that he’d always paid an effective tax rate of at least 13 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...85bd448/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f47f35fb184e
Looking at the ten-year total of Biden’s giving, one percent would have been $24,500. One half of one percent would have been $12,250. One quarter of one percent would have been $6,125. And one eighth of one percent would have been $3,062 — just below what Biden actually contributed.
“The average American household gives about two percent of adjusted gross income,” says Arthur Brooks, the Syracuse University scholar, soon to take over as head of the American Enterprise Institute, who has done extensive research on American giving. “On average, [Biden] is not giving more than one tenth as much as the average American household, and that is evidence that he doesn’t share charitable values with the average American.”
Byron York 9/15/08 NR
Although liberal families’ incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227). RealClearPolitics - Articles - Conservatives More Liberal Givers
Obama and his wife, Michelle, earned $181,507 to $272,759 each year from 1998-2004.
Their income jumped to $1.6 million in 2005, Obama's first year in the Senate, with the rerelease of his first book, “Dreams from My Father.” They made nearly $1 million in 2006, half of it from his second book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
The Obamas' charitable giving also increased with their newfound wealth.
From 1998-2004, they gave between $1,050-$3,400 each year. In 2005, they gave $77,315, including donations to literacy and anti-poverty campaigns and their church. In 2006, they gave $60,307 to charity.
Up until recent years when their income increased sharply from book revenues and a Senate salary, Obama's family donated a relatively minor amount of its earnings to charity. From 2000 through 2004, the senator and his wife never gave more than $3,500 a year in charitable donations -- about 1 percent of their annual earnings.(Sam Stein Huffington Post) Obama Tax Returns: Low On Story Lines And Charity Donations
According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this "giving back" stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.
No wonder Obama doesn't see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama's tax plan won't affect his supporters.
Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.
For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million -- more than twice President Bush's 2005 income of $735,180 -- but they both gave about the same amount to charity.
That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama's. Maybe when Obama talks about "change" he's referring to his charitable contributions.
Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That's for other people to do with what's left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.
As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: "I'm afraid you've got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don't pretend to be Christians."
Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2009-03-11.html
The convenient cliché propagated by many people is that those who truly care about the needy will be supportive of new or expanded government programs. Those who oppose this approach of throwing endlessly increasing sums of money at social programs are commonly labeled as heartless and lacking in compassion. That is not only a false label but it shows a lack of knowledge about American history as well as a lack of understanding about how the incentives created by many large government programs are fundamentally flawed.
Coerced "charity" via government taxation has several corrosive effects:
Anchor Rising: "Who You Gonna Call?" The Little Platoons
Democrats/Liberals lie about everything.
PoliticalChic
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So.....you are neither an American, nor an adherent of the Judeo-Christian persuasion.
Please get lost.
PoliticalChic
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Now let me educate you, and not with cherry-picked examples. Note that at least the top 4 are Liberals/Dems/Progressives.
Not to fear......I provide your education:
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders donated just over 1% of his total income last year, and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren donated 5.5% according to her tax information.” UVa Student Asks Beto Why He Gave Less To Charity Than A College Student
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released 15 years of tax returns on Sunday, showing that she and her husband earned $1.9 million last year and gave $27,000 to charity — or 1.4 percent. Harris reported no charitable giving at all during her first three years as California’s attorney general.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and her husband donated $6,600 of their $338,500 income to charity last year, or just under 2 percent,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and her husband made $215,000 last year and gave $3,750 to charity, also just under 2 percent.
When Mitt Romney finally relented under pressure and released his tax returns in 2012, they showed that he and his wife had given away $4 million out of the $13.7 million they took in during the previous year, or 29.4 percent. Romney didn’t even deduct $1.8 million of donations that year so that he could live up to his statement that he’d always paid an effective tax rate of at least 13 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...85bd448/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f47f35fb184e
Looking at the ten-year total of Biden’s giving, one percent would have been $24,500. One half of one percent would have been $12,250. One quarter of one percent would have been $6,125. And one eighth of one percent would have been $3,062 — just below what Biden actually contributed.
“The average American household gives about two percent of adjusted gross income,” says Arthur Brooks, the Syracuse University scholar, soon to take over as head of the American Enterprise Institute, who has done extensive research on American giving. “On average, [Biden] is not giving more than one tenth as much as the average American household, and that is evidence that he doesn’t share charitable values with the average American.”
Byron York 9/15/08 NR
Although liberal families’ incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227). RealClearPolitics - Articles - Conservatives More Liberal Givers
Obama and his wife, Michelle, earned $181,507 to $272,759 each year from 1998-2004.
Their income jumped to $1.6 million in 2005, Obama's first year in the Senate, with the rerelease of his first book, “Dreams from My Father.” They made nearly $1 million in 2006, half of it from his second book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
The Obamas' charitable giving also increased with their newfound wealth.
From 1998-2004, they gave between $1,050-$3,400 each year. In 2005, they gave $77,315, including donations to literacy and anti-poverty campaigns and their church. In 2006, they gave $60,307 to charity.
Up until recent years when their income increased sharply from book revenues and a Senate salary, Obama's family donated a relatively minor amount of its earnings to charity. From 2000 through 2004, the senator and his wife never gave more than $3,500 a year in charitable donations -- about 1 percent of their annual earnings.(Sam Stein Huffington Post) Obama Tax Returns: Low On Story Lines And Charity Donations
According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this "giving back" stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.
No wonder Obama doesn't see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama's tax plan won't affect his supporters.
Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.
For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million -- more than twice President Bush's 2005 income of $735,180 -- but they both gave about the same amount to charity.
That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama's. Maybe when Obama talks about "change" he's referring to his charitable contributions.
Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That's for other people to do with what's left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.
As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: "I'm afraid you've got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don't pretend to be Christians."
Ann Coulter Are ‘hope’ And ‘change’ Still Tax-deductible? - Ann Coulter
The convenient cliché propagated by many people is that those who truly care about the needy will be supportive of new or expanded government programs. Those who oppose this approach of throwing endlessly increasing sums of money at social programs are commonly labeled as heartless and lacking in compassion. That is not only a false label but it shows a lack of knowledge about American history as well as a lack of understanding about how the incentives created by many large government programs are fundamentally flawed.
Coerced "charity" via government taxation has several corrosive effects:
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Democrats/Liberals lie about everything.
Here’s the full list of America’s 25 most generous givers :
Warren Buffett
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $88.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion
The legendary investor’s quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s donated more than $40 billion—much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where it’s being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He’s also given billions in stock to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. “The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude,” Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge—an initiative aimed at convincing the world’s billionaires to donate at least half their fortunes to charity—alongside the Gateses. “Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced.”
Bill & Melinda Gates
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $120.7 billion
Lifetime Giving: $29.8 billion
Their two decade old Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which makes about $5 billion a year in grants, jumped into funding research, treatments, tests and vaccines for Covid-19 last year, pledging $1.75 billion to be spent over two years, with the goal of getting the tools to fight the pandemic to people in need everywhere. “Everyone, everywhere deserves to benefit from the science developed in 2020,” Melinda Gates said in a statement in December. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion to $3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the foundation since 2006. For these calculations, Forbes divvies up the grantmaking since 2007 by the Gates Foundation between the Gates couple and Buffett.
George Soros
Giving Focus: Democracy, education, antidiscrimination, healthcare
Net Worth: $8.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $16.8 billion
Soros’ Open Society Foundations operate in 120 countries worldwide, focusing most extensively on fostering democracy and protecting voters’ rights, areas where it budgeted $140 million in 2020. With annual giving of $1.2 billion last year, the foundation’s causes include economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. When Covid-19 hit, it committed $37 million for undocumented immigrants excluded from U.S. federal aid to receive financial assistance. It committed $220 million to support leaders in Black communities across the United States in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Michael Bloomberg
Giving Focus: Climate change, health
Net Worth: $54.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $11.1 billion
The former New York City mayor and Bloomberg LP cofounder has poured more than $11 billion into charitable causes, according to his Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on climate change, gun control and public health. He’s spent more than $1 billion to curb tobacco use over the last decade, and in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion pledge to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater. Bloomberg Philanthropies has also donated more than $330 million to Covid-19 related programs ranging from medical research to paying for meals for frontline healthcare workers. In September, Bloomberg also announced a $100 million pledge over the next four years to fund scholarships at four historically Black medical schools.Charles “Chuck” Feeney
Giving Focus: Science, human rights, youth
Net Worth: Under $2 million
Lifetime Giving: $8 billion
The former billionaire who set out to die broke has finally met his financial goal. Feeney, who cofounded the wildly successful retail chain Duty Free Shoppers in 1960, began by anonymously giving away parts of his fortune. He eventually went public with his “Giving While Living” idea, which influenced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett when they launched the Giving Pledge in 2010. Of his $8 billion in donations, some $3.7 billion went to education, including $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell. In September 2020, Feeney and his wife Helga shuttered his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, after it gave away the last of its assets.
MacKenzie Scott
Giving Focus: Racial, gender and economic inequality
Net Worth: $55.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.83 billion
In just one year of active philanthropy, Scott has outshined her peers by miles. With help from an undisclosed number of staff and advisory firm Bridgespan Group, she handed out more in grants in six months than The Gates Foundation, which has 1,600 employees, does in a typical year. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in July, she announced that she had donated nearly $1.7 billion to 116 organizations focused on inequality in society related to race, sexual orientation, gender and economic mobility. In December, Scott revealed she had given nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. Scott’s team paid special attention to nonprofits addressing food insecurity, racial inequity and decreasing poverty.
Gordon & Betty Moore
Giving Focus: Science, environment, education
Net Worth: $11.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.15 billion
Two decades ago, the cofounder and longtime CEO of semiconductor giant Intel and his wife launched their foundation, funding it with gifts of Intel stock. The foundation awards about $270 million in grants a year. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. To boost science research, the foundation has funded design and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, a new class of telescope that will allow researchers to see deeper into space.
Eli & Edythe Broad
Giving Focus: Education, arts, science
Net Worth: $6.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.8 billion
In 2020, the retired home building and insurance tycoon and his wife Edythe gave $136 million to various causes, including the Broad Institute which supported Covid-19 testing for college students and voter education and outreach across the country. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundation and are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation, which includes an art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums.
Jim & Marilyn Simons
Giving Focus: STEM research
Net Worth: $23.5 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
A former math professor before he founded quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies in 1982, Simons has dedicated much of his philanthropic giving to STEM research and education. He established the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994. It’s the primary funder for Math for America, a nonprofit that focuses on building a network of skilled high school math and science teachers. The foundation also funds life science research, with gifts to institutions like the New York Genome Center, and supports autism causes with its Autism Research Institute.
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan
Giving Focus: Science, education, criminal justice, election integrity
Net Worth: $90 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
The Facebook founder and CEO celebrated the fifth anniversary of his philanthropic and advocacy arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in 2020. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have mostly focused their recent giving in two areas: Covid-19 relief and election integrity. From expanding coronavirus testing capacity in the state of California to working with the Gates Foundation to speed up development of Covid treatments, CZI gave more than $100 million to pandemic-related funding in 2020. But that figure is dwarfed by the $400 million that CZI donated to nonpartisan organizations “to ensure voters could cast their ballots safely and securely,” according to Zuckerberg and Chan’s annual letter.
Michael & Susan Dell
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, education
Net Worth: $40.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.25 billion
Their Michael & Susan Dell Foundation increased its yearly commitments in 2020, mostly to cover pandemic-related needs. The foundation dedicated $80 million to helping support healthcare and education systems as well as nonprofits and small businesses across the country. It also donated $20 million to accelerate the development of a Covid-19 treatment. And it pledged $100 million over 10 years to close the gap in college graduation rates across income levels at the University of Texas at Austin, where Dell sold computers out of his dorm room before dropping out at age 19.
Lynn & Stacy Schusterman
Giving Focus: Education, Jewish causes
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.84 billion
The wife and daughter of late oil billionaire Charles Schusterman run the family’s foundation, which more than doubled its grantmaking in 2020 to nearly $400 million. To spur investment in low-income and underserved communities in the U.S., the foundation donated to LISC, a community development finance group that offers loans at affordable rates. It also supported Feeding America, which works with food banks across the country. And it donated to a partnership between tech firm Propel and nonprofit GiveDirectly, which provided $1,000 cash grants to families in need during the pandemic.
T. Denny Sanford
Giving Focus: Healthcare, education
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.8 billion
The South Dakota mogul has given nearly $1 billion to Sanford Health, formerly the Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System, which operates 46 hospitals and 210 clinics. Sanford has also given $150 million to La Jolla, California-based National University, and pledged another $350 million in donations in 2019. In August 2020, ProPublica reported that Sanford had been investigated by the state's Attorney General's office for possible possession of child pornography, and that the matter was referred to the Department of Justice; it's unclear what happened with the investigation and no charges were filed. An attorney for Sanford said that authorities "did not find information or evidence that supported or resulted in any criminal charges.”
Steve & Connie Ballmer
Giving Focus: Economic mobility
Net Worth: $72.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie gave more than $53 million to Covid-19 relief efforts in 2020, ranging from vaccine testing to food banks to students in need. The couple also gave $7 million that year to gun control advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety. Previously, Ballmer gave $50 million to the University of Oregon (Connie’s alma mater) in 2014 and gave $60 million to the computer science department at Harvard (his alma mater). The couple has directed another $40 million toward other universities and $30 million toward children’s health and education.
Leonard Lauder
Giving Focus: Arts, science
Net Worth: $22 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The elder son of makeup maven Estee Lauder, Leonard Lauder gave his massive Cubist art collection—worth more than $1 billion—to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. He and his billionaire brother, Ronald, have also helped raise millions for the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, which they co-chair. The organization has awarded more than $150 million in funding for research on Alzheimer’s disease at biotech companies and academic centers in 19 countries.
Donald Bren
Giving Focus: Education, conservation
Net Worth: $15.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of California’s Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. The bulk of his giving is a 2010 gift of 20,000 acres of parkland to Orange County, part of which established the Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Since Bren took over the Irvine Company in the 1980s, the firm has designated more than 50,000 acres of land as open space and protected parkland.
George Kaiser
Giving Focus: Education, health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $5.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Oklahoma oil and banking baron is the largest philanthropist in his state. Focused on his home city of Tulsa, his George Kaiser Family Foundation has paid out nearly $1.3 billion in contributions and grants to childhood education and community health programs in the city, including gifts to local nonprofits and social service agencies. In 2018, Kaiser opened The Gathering Place, a 66-acre park in Tulsa that’s the largest public park in the U.S. that was built with private funds. "If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty," he told Forbes in 2011. "Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive and they should end up with the same tools for success."
Charles Koch
Giving Focus: Education, poverty, criminal justice
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Kansas native presides over Koch Industries, America's largest private company. Much of his giving is done through the Charles Koch Foundation, which focuses on education and criminal justice, and the Stand Together Foundation, which focuses on poverty related issues. In 2020, Stand Together launched the GiveTogetherNow initiative, which raised $120 million from the likes of Google and Stripe to provide more than 240,000 families with $500 in cash assistance.
Julia Koch & family
Giving Focus: Medical research, arts and culture
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The widow of industrialist David Koch (d. 2019) has focused much of her giving on medical and art causes. Alongside David, she has given over $700 million to medical institutions, including more than $200 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and some $300 million to arts and culture organizations, including more than $100 million to Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. David, former executive vice president of Koch Industries and Charles Koch's younger brother, was also a major donor to his alma maters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Deerfield Academy.
Pierre Omidyar
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, human rights, education
Net Worth: $21.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The eBay founder’s Omidyar Group donates to causes around the world, including education opportunities in Africa and India, and relief for refugees in countries like South Sudan and Syria. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Omidyar and his wife donated more than $10 million to help address the impact of the crisis, including a $1 million donation in Hawaii, where they reside. Luminate, the Group’s citizen engagement arm—which has doled out nearly $400 million since its launch—increased its support for social justice organizations, including the civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change, following the Black Lives Matter protests in June.
Julian Robertson Jr.
Giving Focus: Environment, education, medical research
Net Worth: $4.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
A pioneer of the modern hedge fund industry, Julian Robertson Jr. established the Robertson Foundation in 1996 to support the environment, education and medical research. His foundation cofounded the New York City Charter School Center and created the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program to fund undergraduate education at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill. Robertson has established a handful of other charitable foundations, including the Tiger Foundation, the Aotearoa and the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation.
Ted Turner
Giving Focus: United Nations, environment
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
In 1997, the man behind Turner Broadcasting and CNN made a historic $1 billion pledge that launched the United Nations Foundation. While the U.N. cannot directly raise money from philanthropists, the U.N. Foundation can—using the funds to support the intergovernmental organization’s peacekeeping, public health and environmental activities across the world. He fulfilled his big U.N. pledge in 2014. Turner, who has donated at least $300 million to other causes including land, water and species conservation through his own foundation, has said his U.N. contribution “is the best investment I’ve ever made.”
John & Laura Arnold
Giving Focus: Education, criminal justice, health
Net Worth: $3.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.24 billion
Arnold, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife focus on criminal justice, healthcare and education reform. Their Arnold Ventures has pumped more than $57 million into policing initiatives, including a $2 million gift to the University of Cincinnati in 2020 to “test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police.” They’ve also put nearly $100 million into programs focused on making prescription drugs cheaper and more accessible, $68 million into higher education initiatives and $22 million toward reproductive health causes.
Amos Hostetter Jr.
Giving Focus: Arts, climate, education
Net Worth: $3.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Hostetter built a fortune as a cable TV pioneer and is working to give it away through his Boston-based Barr Foundation, which makes about $60 million in grants a year. To fight climate change, the foundation has backed efforts to reduce emissions from buildings and transportation. In 2020 it extended support to nonprofits struggling during the pandemic.
Phil Knight & family
Giving Focus: Education
Net Worth: $52.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Knight, who cofounded the sportswear giant Nike with his former track coach at the University of Oregon, pledged nearly $800 million to the university, including a $27 million donation to renovate the campus library, a $500 million commitment to establish a new applied sciences research center and a $100 million gift to help finance construction of the school's new basketball venue, Matthew Knight Arena, named after his late son. He has also committed large sums to the Oregon Health & Science University and Stanford, where he got his MBA.
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Now let me educate you, and not with cherry-picked examples. Note that at least the top 4 are Liberals/Dems/Progressives.
Not to fear......I provide your education:
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders donated just over 1% of his total income last year, and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren donated 5.5% according to her tax information.” UVa Student Asks Beto Why He Gave Less To Charity Than A College Student
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released 15 years of tax returns on Sunday, showing that she and her husband earned $1.9 million last year and gave $27,000 to charity — or 1.4 percent. Harris reported no charitable giving at all during her first three years as California’s attorney general.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and her husband donated $6,600 of their $338,500 income to charity last year, or just under 2 percent,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and her husband made $215,000 last year and gave $3,750 to charity, also just under 2 percent.
When Mitt Romney finally relented under pressure and released his tax returns in 2012, they showed that he and his wife had given away $4 million out of the $13.7 million they took in during the previous year, or 29.4 percent. Romney didn’t even deduct $1.8 million of donations that year so that he could live up to his statement that he’d always paid an effective tax rate of at least 13 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...85bd448/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f47f35fb184e
Looking at the ten-year total of Biden’s giving, one percent would have been $24,500. One half of one percent would have been $12,250. One quarter of one percent would have been $6,125. And one eighth of one percent would have been $3,062 — just below what Biden actually contributed.
“The average American household gives about two percent of adjusted gross income,” says Arthur Brooks, the Syracuse University scholar, soon to take over as head of the American Enterprise Institute, who has done extensive research on American giving. “On average, [Biden] is not giving more than one tenth as much as the average American household, and that is evidence that he doesn’t share charitable values with the average American.”
Byron York 9/15/08 NR
Although liberal families’ incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227). RealClearPolitics - Articles - Conservatives More Liberal Givers
Obama and his wife, Michelle, earned $181,507 to $272,759 each year from 1998-2004.
Their income jumped to $1.6 million in 2005, Obama's first year in the Senate, with the rerelease of his first book, “Dreams from My Father.” They made nearly $1 million in 2006, half of it from his second book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
The Obamas' charitable giving also increased with their newfound wealth.
From 1998-2004, they gave between $1,050-$3,400 each year. In 2005, they gave $77,315, including donations to literacy and anti-poverty campaigns and their church. In 2006, they gave $60,307 to charity.
Up until recent years when their income increased sharply from book revenues and a Senate salary, Obama's family donated a relatively minor amount of its earnings to charity. From 2000 through 2004, the senator and his wife never gave more than $3,500 a year in charitable donations -- about 1 percent of their annual earnings.(Sam Stein Huffington Post) Obama Tax Returns: Low On Story Lines And Charity Donations
According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this "giving back" stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.
No wonder Obama doesn't see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama's tax plan won't affect his supporters.
Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.
For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million -- more than twice President Bush's 2005 income of $735,180 -- but they both gave about the same amount to charity.
That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama's. Maybe when Obama talks about "change" he's referring to his charitable contributions.
Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That's for other people to do with what's left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.
As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: "I'm afraid you've got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don't pretend to be Christians."
Ann Coulter Are ‘hope’ And ‘change’ Still Tax-deductible? - Ann Coulter
The convenient cliché propagated by many people is that those who truly care about the needy will be supportive of new or expanded government programs. Those who oppose this approach of throwing endlessly increasing sums of money at social programs are commonly labeled as heartless and lacking in compassion. That is not only a false label but it shows a lack of knowledge about American history as well as a lack of understanding about how the incentives created by many large government programs are fundamentally flawed.
Coerced "charity" via government taxation has several corrosive effects:
Anchor Rising: "Who You Gonna Call?" The Little Platoons
Democrats/Liberals lie about everything.
Here’s the full list of America’s 25 most generous givers :
Warren Buffett
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $88.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion
The legendary investor’s quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s donated more than $40 billion—much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where it’s being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He’s also given billions in stock to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. “The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude,” Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge—an initiative aimed at convincing the world’s billionaires to donate at least half their fortunes to charity—alongside the Gateses. “Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced.”
Bill & Melinda Gates
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $120.7 billion
Lifetime Giving: $29.8 billion
Their two decade old Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which makes about $5 billion a year in grants, jumped into funding research, treatments, tests and vaccines for Covid-19 last year, pledging $1.75 billion to be spent over two years, with the goal of getting the tools to fight the pandemic to people in need everywhere. “Everyone, everywhere deserves to benefit from the science developed in 2020,” Melinda Gates said in a statement in December. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion to $3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the foundation since 2006. For these calculations, Forbes divvies up the grantmaking since 2007 by the Gates Foundation between the Gates couple and Buffett.
George Soros
Giving Focus: Democracy, education, antidiscrimination, healthcare
Net Worth: $8.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $16.8 billion
Soros’ Open Society Foundations operate in 120 countries worldwide, focusing most extensively on fostering democracy and protecting voters’ rights, areas where it budgeted $140 million in 2020. With annual giving of $1.2 billion last year, the foundation’s causes include economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. When Covid-19 hit, it committed $37 million for undocumented immigrants excluded from U.S. federal aid to receive financial assistance. It committed $220 million to support leaders in Black communities across the United States in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Michael Bloomberg
Giving Focus: Climate change, health
Net Worth: $54.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $11.1 billion
The former New York City mayor and Bloomberg LP cofounder has poured more than $11 billion into charitable causes, according to his Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on climate change, gun control and public health. He’s spent more than $1 billion to curb tobacco use over the last decade, and in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion pledge to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater. Bloomberg Philanthropies has also donated more than $330 million to Covid-19 related programs ranging from medical research to paying for meals for frontline healthcare workers. In September, Bloomberg also announced a $100 million pledge over the next four years to fund scholarships at four historically Black medical schools.
Charles “Chuck” Feeney
Giving Focus: Science, human rights, youth
Net Worth: Under $2 million
Lifetime Giving: $8 billion
The former billionaire who set out to die broke has finally met his financial goal. Feeney, who cofounded the wildly successful retail chain Duty Free Shoppers in 1960, began by anonymously giving away parts of his fortune. He eventually went public with his “Giving While Living” idea, which influenced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett when they launched the Giving Pledge in 2010. Of his $8 billion in donations, some $3.7 billion went to education, including $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell. In September 2020, Feeney and his wife Helga shuttered his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, after it gave away the last of its assets.
MacKenzie Scott
Giving Focus: Racial, gender and economic inequality
Net Worth: $55.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.83 billion
In just one year of active philanthropy, Scott has outshined her peers by miles. With help from an undisclosed number of staff and advisory firm Bridgespan Group, she handed out more in grants in six months than The Gates Foundation, which has 1,600 employees, does in a typical year. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in July, she announced that she had donated nearly $1.7 billion to 116 organizations focused on inequality in society related to race, sexual orientation, gender and economic mobility. In December, Scott revealed she had given nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. Scott’s team paid special attention to nonprofits addressing food insecurity, racial inequity and decreasing poverty.
Gordon & Betty Moore
Giving Focus: Science, environment, education
Net Worth: $11.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.15 billion
Two decades ago, the cofounder and longtime CEO of semiconductor giant Intel and his wife launched their foundation, funding it with gifts of Intel stock. The foundation awards about $270 million in grants a year. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. To boost science research, the foundation has funded design and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, a new class of telescope that will allow researchers to see deeper into space.
Eli & Edythe Broad
Giving Focus: Education, arts, science
Net Worth: $6.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.8 billion
In 2020, the retired home building and insurance tycoon and his wife Edythe gave $136 million to various causes, including the Broad Institute which supported Covid-19 testing for college students and voter education and outreach across the country. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundation and are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation, which includes an art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums.
Jim & Marilyn Simons
Giving Focus: STEM research
Net Worth: $23.5 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
A former math professor before he founded quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies in 1982, Simons has dedicated much of his philanthropic giving to STEM research and education. He established the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994. It’s the primary funder for Math for America, a nonprofit that focuses on building a network of skilled high school math and science teachers. The foundation also funds life science research, with gifts to institutions like the New York Genome Center, and supports autism causes with its Autism Research Institute.
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan
Giving Focus: Science, education, criminal justice, election integrity
Net Worth: $90 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
The Facebook founder and CEO celebrated the fifth anniversary of his philanthropic and advocacy arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in 2020. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have mostly focused their recent giving in two areas: Covid-19 relief and election integrity. From expanding coronavirus testing capacity in the state of California to working with the Gates Foundation to speed up development of Covid treatments, CZI gave more than $100 million to pandemic-related funding in 2020. But that figure is dwarfed by the $400 million that CZI donated to nonpartisan organizations “to ensure voters could cast their ballots safely and securely,” according to Zuckerberg and Chan’s annual letter.
Michael & Susan Dell
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, education
Net Worth: $40.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.25 billion
Their Michael & Susan Dell Foundation increased its yearly commitments in 2020, mostly to cover pandemic-related needs. The foundation dedicated $80 million to helping support healthcare and education systems as well as nonprofits and small businesses across the country. It also donated $20 million to accelerate the development of a Covid-19 treatment. And it pledged $100 million over 10 years to close the gap in college graduation rates across income levels at the University of Texas at Austin, where Dell sold computers out of his dorm room before dropping out at age 19.
Lynn & Stacy Schusterman
Giving Focus: Education, Jewish causes
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.84 billion
The wife and daughter of late oil billionaire Charles Schusterman run the family’s foundation, which more than doubled its grantmaking in 2020 to nearly $400 million. To spur investment in low-income and underserved communities in the U.S., the foundation donated to LISC, a community development finance group that offers loans at affordable rates. It also supported Feeding America, which works with food banks across the country. And it donated to a partnership between tech firm Propel and nonprofit GiveDirectly, which provided $1,000 cash grants to families in need during the pandemic.
T. Denny Sanford
Giving Focus: Healthcare, education
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.8 billion
The South Dakota mogul has given nearly $1 billion to Sanford Health, formerly the Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System, which operates 46 hospitals and 210 clinics. Sanford has also given $150 million to La Jolla, California-based National University, and pledged another $350 million in donations in 2019. In August 2020, ProPublica reported that Sanford had been investigated by the state's Attorney General's office for possible possession of child pornography, and that the matter was referred to the Department of Justice; it's unclear what happened with the investigation and no charges were filed. An attorney for Sanford said that authorities "did not find information or evidence that supported or resulted in any criminal charges.”
Steve & Connie Ballmer
Giving Focus: Economic mobility
Net Worth: $72.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie gave more than $53 million to Covid-19 relief efforts in 2020, ranging from vaccine testing to food banks to students in need. The couple also gave $7 million that year to gun control advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety. Previously, Ballmer gave $50 million to the University of Oregon (Connie’s alma mater) in 2014 and gave $60 million to the computer science department at Harvard (his alma mater). The couple has directed another $40 million toward other universities and $30 million toward children’s health and education.
Leonard Lauder
Giving Focus: Arts, science
Net Worth: $22 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The elder son of makeup maven Estee Lauder, Leonard Lauder gave his massive Cubist art collection—worth more than $1 billion—to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. He and his billionaire brother, Ronald, have also helped raise millions for the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, which they co-chair. The organization has awarded more than $150 million in funding for research on Alzheimer’s disease at biotech companies and academic centers in 19 countries.
Donald Bren
Giving Focus: Education, conservation
Net Worth: $15.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of California’s Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. The bulk of his giving is a 2010 gift of 20,000 acres of parkland to Orange County, part of which established the Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Since Bren took over the Irvine Company in the 1980s, the firm has designated more than 50,000 acres of land as open space and protected parkland.
George Kaiser
Giving Focus: Education, health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $5.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Oklahoma oil and banking baron is the largest philanthropist in his state. Focused on his home city of Tulsa, his George Kaiser Family Foundation has paid out nearly $1.3 billion in contributions and grants to childhood education and community health programs in the city, including gifts to local nonprofits and social service agencies. In 2018, Kaiser opened The Gathering Place, a 66-acre park in Tulsa that’s the largest public park in the U.S. that was built with private funds. "If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty," he told Forbes in 2011. "Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive and they should end up with the same tools for success."
Charles Koch
Giving Focus: Education, poverty, criminal justice
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Kansas native presides over Koch Industries, America's largest private company. Much of his giving is done through the Charles Koch Foundation, which focuses on education and criminal justice, and the Stand Together Foundation, which focuses on poverty related issues. In 2020, Stand Together launched the GiveTogetherNow initiative, which raised $120 million from the likes of Google and Stripe to provide more than 240,000 families with $500 in cash assistance.
Julia Koch & family
Giving Focus: Medical research, arts and culture
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The widow of industrialist David Koch (d. 2019) has focused much of her giving on medical and art causes. Alongside David, she has given over $700 million to medical institutions, including more than $200 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and some $300 million to arts and culture organizations, including more than $100 million to Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. David, former executive vice president of Koch Industries and Charles Koch's younger brother, was also a major donor to his alma maters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Deerfield Academy.
Pierre Omidyar
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, human rights, education
Net Worth: $21.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The eBay founder’s Omidyar Group donates to causes around the world, including education opportunities in Africa and India, and relief for refugees in countries like South Sudan and Syria. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Omidyar and his wife donated more than $10 million to help address the impact of the crisis, including a $1 million donation in Hawaii, where they reside. Luminate, the Group’s citizen engagement arm—which has doled out nearly $400 million since its launch—increased its support for social justice organizations, including the civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change, following the Black Lives Matter protests in June.
Julian Robertson Jr.
Giving Focus: Environment, education, medical research
Net Worth: $4.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
A pioneer of the modern hedge fund industry, Julian Robertson Jr. established the Robertson Foundation in 1996 to support the environment, education and medical research. His foundation cofounded the New York City Charter School Center and created the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program to fund undergraduate education at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill. Robertson has established a handful of other charitable foundations, including the Tiger Foundation, the Aotearoa and the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation.
Ted Turner
Giving Focus: United Nations, environment
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
In 1997, the man behind Turner Broadcasting and CNN made a historic $1 billion pledge that launched the United Nations Foundation. While the U.N. cannot directly raise money from philanthropists, the U.N. Foundation can—using the funds to support the intergovernmental organization’s peacekeeping, public health and environmental activities across the world. He fulfilled his big U.N. pledge in 2014. Turner, who has donated at least $300 million to other causes including land, water and species conservation through his own foundation, has said his U.N. contribution “is the best investment I’ve ever made.”
John & Laura Arnold
Giving Focus: Education, criminal justice, health
Net Worth: $3.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.24 billion
Arnold, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife focus on criminal justice, healthcare and education reform. Their Arnold Ventures has pumped more than $57 million into policing initiatives, including a $2 million gift to the University of Cincinnati in 2020 to “test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police.” They’ve also put nearly $100 million into programs focused on making prescription drugs cheaper and more accessible, $68 million into higher education initiatives and $22 million toward reproductive health causes.
Amos Hostetter Jr.
Giving Focus: Arts, climate, education
Net Worth: $3.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Hostetter built a fortune as a cable TV pioneer and is working to give it away through his Boston-based Barr Foundation, which makes about $60 million in grants a year. To fight climate change, the foundation has backed efforts to reduce emissions from buildings and transportation. In 2020 it extended support to nonprofits struggling during the pandemic.
Phil Knight & family
Giving Focus: Education
Net Worth: $52.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Knight, who cofounded the sportswear giant Nike with his former track coach at the University of Oregon, pledged nearly $800 million to the university, including a $27 million donation to renovate the campus library, a $500 million commitment to establish a new applied sciences research center and a $100 million gift to help finance construction of the school's new basketball venue, Matthew Knight Arena, named after his late son. He has also committed large sums to the Oregon Health & Science University and Stanford, where he got his MBA.
Do the math and get back with a list of the percent of their wealth these folks donated.
They didn't teach you math in your private school. Well #1 on the list is Warren Buffet and his number is close to 50%, for Gates it is 25% (so far) and George Soros gave away $2 for every $1 he kept for himself.Now let me educate you, and not with cherry-picked examples. Note that at least the top 4 are Liberals/Dems/Progressives.
Not to fear......I provide your education:
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders donated just over 1% of his total income last year, and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren donated 5.5% according to her tax information.” UVa Student Asks Beto Why He Gave Less To Charity Than A College Student
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released 15 years of tax returns on Sunday, showing that she and her husband earned $1.9 million last year and gave $27,000 to charity — or 1.4 percent. Harris reported no charitable giving at all during her first three years as California’s attorney general.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and her husband donated $6,600 of their $338,500 income to charity last year, or just under 2 percent,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and her husband made $215,000 last year and gave $3,750 to charity, also just under 2 percent.
When Mitt Romney finally relented under pressure and released his tax returns in 2012, they showed that he and his wife had given away $4 million out of the $13.7 million they took in during the previous year, or 29.4 percent. Romney didn’t even deduct $1.8 million of donations that year so that he could live up to his statement that he’d always paid an effective tax rate of at least 13 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...85bd448/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f47f35fb184e
Looking at the ten-year total of Biden’s giving, one percent would have been $24,500. One half of one percent would have been $12,250. One quarter of one percent would have been $6,125. And one eighth of one percent would have been $3,062 — just below what Biden actually contributed.
“The average American household gives about two percent of adjusted gross income,” says Arthur Brooks, the Syracuse University scholar, soon to take over as head of the American Enterprise Institute, who has done extensive research on American giving. “On average, [Biden] is not giving more than one tenth as much as the average American household, and that is evidence that he doesn’t share charitable values with the average American.”
Byron York 9/15/08 NR
Although liberal families’ incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227). RealClearPolitics - Articles - Conservatives More Liberal Givers
Obama and his wife, Michelle, earned $181,507 to $272,759 each year from 1998-2004.
Their income jumped to $1.6 million in 2005, Obama's first year in the Senate, with the rerelease of his first book, “Dreams from My Father.” They made nearly $1 million in 2006, half of it from his second book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
The Obamas' charitable giving also increased with their newfound wealth.
From 1998-2004, they gave between $1,050-$3,400 each year. In 2005, they gave $77,315, including donations to literacy and anti-poverty campaigns and their church. In 2006, they gave $60,307 to charity.
Up until recent years when their income increased sharply from book revenues and a Senate salary, Obama's family donated a relatively minor amount of its earnings to charity. From 2000 through 2004, the senator and his wife never gave more than $3,500 a year in charitable donations -- about 1 percent of their annual earnings.(Sam Stein Huffington Post) Obama Tax Returns: Low On Story Lines And Charity Donations
According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this "giving back" stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.
No wonder Obama doesn't see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama's tax plan won't affect his supporters.
Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.
For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million -- more than twice President Bush's 2005 income of $735,180 -- but they both gave about the same amount to charity.
That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama's. Maybe when Obama talks about "change" he's referring to his charitable contributions.
Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That's for other people to do with what's left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.
As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: "I'm afraid you've got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don't pretend to be Christians."
Ann Coulter Are ‘hope’ And ‘change’ Still Tax-deductible? - Ann Coulter
The convenient cliché propagated by many people is that those who truly care about the needy will be supportive of new or expanded government programs. Those who oppose this approach of throwing endlessly increasing sums of money at social programs are commonly labeled as heartless and lacking in compassion. That is not only a false label but it shows a lack of knowledge about American history as well as a lack of understanding about how the incentives created by many large government programs are fundamentally flawed.
Coerced "charity" via government taxation has several corrosive effects:
Anchor Rising: "Who You Gonna Call?" The Little Platoons
Democrats/Liberals lie about everything.
Here’s the full list of America’s 25 most generous givers :
Warren Buffett
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $88.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion
The legendary investor’s quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s donated more than $40 billion—much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where it’s being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He’s also given billions in stock to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. “The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude,” Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge—an initiative aimed at convincing the world’s billionaires to donate at least half their fortunes to charity—alongside the Gateses. “Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced.”
Bill & Melinda Gates
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $120.7 billion
Lifetime Giving: $29.8 billion
Their two decade old Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which makes about $5 billion a year in grants, jumped into funding research, treatments, tests and vaccines for Covid-19 last year, pledging $1.75 billion to be spent over two years, with the goal of getting the tools to fight the pandemic to people in need everywhere. “Everyone, everywhere deserves to benefit from the science developed in 2020,” Melinda Gates said in a statement in December. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion to $3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the foundation since 2006. For these calculations, Forbes divvies up the grantmaking since 2007 by the Gates Foundation between the Gates couple and Buffett.
George Soros
Giving Focus: Democracy, education, antidiscrimination, healthcare
Net Worth: $8.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $16.8 billion
Soros’ Open Society Foundations operate in 120 countries worldwide, focusing most extensively on fostering democracy and protecting voters’ rights, areas where it budgeted $140 million in 2020. With annual giving of $1.2 billion last year, the foundation’s causes include economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. When Covid-19 hit, it committed $37 million for undocumented immigrants excluded from U.S. federal aid to receive financial assistance. It committed $220 million to support leaders in Black communities across the United States in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Michael Bloomberg
Giving Focus: Climate change, health
Net Worth: $54.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $11.1 billion
The former New York City mayor and Bloomberg LP cofounder has poured more than $11 billion into charitable causes, according to his Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on climate change, gun control and public health. He’s spent more than $1 billion to curb tobacco use over the last decade, and in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion pledge to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater. Bloomberg Philanthropies has also donated more than $330 million to Covid-19 related programs ranging from medical research to paying for meals for frontline healthcare workers. In September, Bloomberg also announced a $100 million pledge over the next four years to fund scholarships at four historically Black medical schools.
Charles “Chuck” Feeney
Giving Focus: Science, human rights, youth
Net Worth: Under $2 million
Lifetime Giving: $8 billion
The former billionaire who set out to die broke has finally met his financial goal. Feeney, who cofounded the wildly successful retail chain Duty Free Shoppers in 1960, began by anonymously giving away parts of his fortune. He eventually went public with his “Giving While Living” idea, which influenced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett when they launched the Giving Pledge in 2010. Of his $8 billion in donations, some $3.7 billion went to education, including $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell. In September 2020, Feeney and his wife Helga shuttered his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, after it gave away the last of its assets.
MacKenzie Scott
Giving Focus: Racial, gender and economic inequality
Net Worth: $55.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.83 billion
In just one year of active philanthropy, Scott has outshined her peers by miles. With help from an undisclosed number of staff and advisory firm Bridgespan Group, she handed out more in grants in six months than The Gates Foundation, which has 1,600 employees, does in a typical year. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in July, she announced that she had donated nearly $1.7 billion to 116 organizations focused on inequality in society related to race, sexual orientation, gender and economic mobility. In December, Scott revealed she had given nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. Scott’s team paid special attention to nonprofits addressing food insecurity, racial inequity and decreasing poverty.
Gordon & Betty Moore
Giving Focus: Science, environment, education
Net Worth: $11.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.15 billion
Two decades ago, the cofounder and longtime CEO of semiconductor giant Intel and his wife launched their foundation, funding it with gifts of Intel stock. The foundation awards about $270 million in grants a year. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. To boost science research, the foundation has funded design and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, a new class of telescope that will allow researchers to see deeper into space.
Eli & Edythe Broad
Giving Focus: Education, arts, science
Net Worth: $6.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.8 billion
In 2020, the retired home building and insurance tycoon and his wife Edythe gave $136 million to various causes, including the Broad Institute which supported Covid-19 testing for college students and voter education and outreach across the country. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundation and are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation, which includes an art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums.
Jim & Marilyn Simons
Giving Focus: STEM research
Net Worth: $23.5 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
A former math professor before he founded quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies in 1982, Simons has dedicated much of his philanthropic giving to STEM research and education. He established the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994. It’s the primary funder for Math for America, a nonprofit that focuses on building a network of skilled high school math and science teachers. The foundation also funds life science research, with gifts to institutions like the New York Genome Center, and supports autism causes with its Autism Research Institute.
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan
Giving Focus: Science, education, criminal justice, election integrity
Net Worth: $90 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
The Facebook founder and CEO celebrated the fifth anniversary of his philanthropic and advocacy arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in 2020. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have mostly focused their recent giving in two areas: Covid-19 relief and election integrity. From expanding coronavirus testing capacity in the state of California to working with the Gates Foundation to speed up development of Covid treatments, CZI gave more than $100 million to pandemic-related funding in 2020. But that figure is dwarfed by the $400 million that CZI donated to nonpartisan organizations “to ensure voters could cast their ballots safely and securely,” according to Zuckerberg and Chan’s annual letter.
Michael & Susan Dell
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, education
Net Worth: $40.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.25 billion
Their Michael & Susan Dell Foundation increased its yearly commitments in 2020, mostly to cover pandemic-related needs. The foundation dedicated $80 million to helping support healthcare and education systems as well as nonprofits and small businesses across the country. It also donated $20 million to accelerate the development of a Covid-19 treatment. And it pledged $100 million over 10 years to close the gap in college graduation rates across income levels at the University of Texas at Austin, where Dell sold computers out of his dorm room before dropping out at age 19.
Lynn & Stacy Schusterman
Giving Focus: Education, Jewish causes
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.84 billion
The wife and daughter of late oil billionaire Charles Schusterman run the family’s foundation, which more than doubled its grantmaking in 2020 to nearly $400 million. To spur investment in low-income and underserved communities in the U.S., the foundation donated to LISC, a community development finance group that offers loans at affordable rates. It also supported Feeding America, which works with food banks across the country. And it donated to a partnership between tech firm Propel and nonprofit GiveDirectly, which provided $1,000 cash grants to families in need during the pandemic.
T. Denny Sanford
Giving Focus: Healthcare, education
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.8 billion
The South Dakota mogul has given nearly $1 billion to Sanford Health, formerly the Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System, which operates 46 hospitals and 210 clinics. Sanford has also given $150 million to La Jolla, California-based National University, and pledged another $350 million in donations in 2019. In August 2020, ProPublica reported that Sanford had been investigated by the state's Attorney General's office for possible possession of child pornography, and that the matter was referred to the Department of Justice; it's unclear what happened with the investigation and no charges were filed. An attorney for Sanford said that authorities "did not find information or evidence that supported or resulted in any criminal charges.”
Steve & Connie Ballmer
Giving Focus: Economic mobility
Net Worth: $72.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie gave more than $53 million to Covid-19 relief efforts in 2020, ranging from vaccine testing to food banks to students in need. The couple also gave $7 million that year to gun control advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety. Previously, Ballmer gave $50 million to the University of Oregon (Connie’s alma mater) in 2014 and gave $60 million to the computer science department at Harvard (his alma mater). The couple has directed another $40 million toward other universities and $30 million toward children’s health and education.
Leonard Lauder
Giving Focus: Arts, science
Net Worth: $22 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The elder son of makeup maven Estee Lauder, Leonard Lauder gave his massive Cubist art collection—worth more than $1 billion—to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. He and his billionaire brother, Ronald, have also helped raise millions for the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, which they co-chair. The organization has awarded more than $150 million in funding for research on Alzheimer’s disease at biotech companies and academic centers in 19 countries.
Donald Bren
Giving Focus: Education, conservation
Net Worth: $15.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of California’s Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. The bulk of his giving is a 2010 gift of 20,000 acres of parkland to Orange County, part of which established the Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Since Bren took over the Irvine Company in the 1980s, the firm has designated more than 50,000 acres of land as open space and protected parkland.
George Kaiser
Giving Focus: Education, health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $5.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Oklahoma oil and banking baron is the largest philanthropist in his state. Focused on his home city of Tulsa, his George Kaiser Family Foundation has paid out nearly $1.3 billion in contributions and grants to childhood education and community health programs in the city, including gifts to local nonprofits and social service agencies. In 2018, Kaiser opened The Gathering Place, a 66-acre park in Tulsa that’s the largest public park in the U.S. that was built with private funds. "If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty," he told Forbes in 2011. "Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive and they should end up with the same tools for success."
Charles Koch
Giving Focus: Education, poverty, criminal justice
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Kansas native presides over Koch Industries, America's largest private company. Much of his giving is done through the Charles Koch Foundation, which focuses on education and criminal justice, and the Stand Together Foundation, which focuses on poverty related issues. In 2020, Stand Together launched the GiveTogetherNow initiative, which raised $120 million from the likes of Google and Stripe to provide more than 240,000 families with $500 in cash assistance.
Julia Koch & family
Giving Focus: Medical research, arts and culture
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The widow of industrialist David Koch (d. 2019) has focused much of her giving on medical and art causes. Alongside David, she has given over $700 million to medical institutions, including more than $200 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and some $300 million to arts and culture organizations, including more than $100 million to Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. David, former executive vice president of Koch Industries and Charles Koch's younger brother, was also a major donor to his alma maters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Deerfield Academy.
Pierre Omidyar
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, human rights, education
Net Worth: $21.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The eBay founder’s Omidyar Group donates to causes around the world, including education opportunities in Africa and India, and relief for refugees in countries like South Sudan and Syria. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Omidyar and his wife donated more than $10 million to help address the impact of the crisis, including a $1 million donation in Hawaii, where they reside. Luminate, the Group’s citizen engagement arm—which has doled out nearly $400 million since its launch—increased its support for social justice organizations, including the civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change, following the Black Lives Matter protests in June.
Julian Robertson Jr.
Giving Focus: Environment, education, medical research
Net Worth: $4.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
A pioneer of the modern hedge fund industry, Julian Robertson Jr. established the Robertson Foundation in 1996 to support the environment, education and medical research. His foundation cofounded the New York City Charter School Center and created the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program to fund undergraduate education at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill. Robertson has established a handful of other charitable foundations, including the Tiger Foundation, the Aotearoa and the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation.
Ted Turner
Giving Focus: United Nations, environment
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
In 1997, the man behind Turner Broadcasting and CNN made a historic $1 billion pledge that launched the United Nations Foundation. While the U.N. cannot directly raise money from philanthropists, the U.N. Foundation can—using the funds to support the intergovernmental organization’s peacekeeping, public health and environmental activities across the world. He fulfilled his big U.N. pledge in 2014. Turner, who has donated at least $300 million to other causes including land, water and species conservation through his own foundation, has said his U.N. contribution “is the best investment I’ve ever made.”
John & Laura Arnold
Giving Focus: Education, criminal justice, health
Net Worth: $3.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.24 billion
Arnold, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife focus on criminal justice, healthcare and education reform. Their Arnold Ventures has pumped more than $57 million into policing initiatives, including a $2 million gift to the University of Cincinnati in 2020 to “test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police.” They’ve also put nearly $100 million into programs focused on making prescription drugs cheaper and more accessible, $68 million into higher education initiatives and $22 million toward reproductive health causes.
Amos Hostetter Jr.
Giving Focus: Arts, climate, education
Net Worth: $3.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Hostetter built a fortune as a cable TV pioneer and is working to give it away through his Boston-based Barr Foundation, which makes about $60 million in grants a year. To fight climate change, the foundation has backed efforts to reduce emissions from buildings and transportation. In 2020 it extended support to nonprofits struggling during the pandemic.
Phil Knight & family
Giving Focus: Education
Net Worth: $52.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Knight, who cofounded the sportswear giant Nike with his former track coach at the University of Oregon, pledged nearly $800 million to the university, including a $27 million donation to renovate the campus library, a $500 million commitment to establish a new applied sciences research center and a $100 million gift to help finance construction of the school's new basketball venue, Matthew Knight Arena, named after his late son. He has also committed large sums to the Oregon Health & Science University and Stanford, where he got his MBA.
Do the math and get back with a list of the percent of their wealth these folks donated.
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They didn't teach you math in your private school. Well #1 on the list is Warren Buffet and his number is close to 50%, for Gates it is 25% (so far) and George Soros gave away $2 for every $1 he kept for himself.Now let me educate you, and not with cherry-picked examples. Note that at least the top 4 are Liberals/Dems/Progressives.
Not to fear......I provide your education:
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders donated just over 1% of his total income last year, and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren donated 5.5% according to her tax information.” UVa Student Asks Beto Why He Gave Less To Charity Than A College Student
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released 15 years of tax returns on Sunday, showing that she and her husband earned $1.9 million last year and gave $27,000 to charity — or 1.4 percent. Harris reported no charitable giving at all during her first three years as California’s attorney general.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and her husband donated $6,600 of their $338,500 income to charity last year, or just under 2 percent,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and her husband made $215,000 last year and gave $3,750 to charity, also just under 2 percent.
When Mitt Romney finally relented under pressure and released his tax returns in 2012, they showed that he and his wife had given away $4 million out of the $13.7 million they took in during the previous year, or 29.4 percent. Romney didn’t even deduct $1.8 million of donations that year so that he could live up to his statement that he’d always paid an effective tax rate of at least 13 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...85bd448/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f47f35fb184e
Looking at the ten-year total of Biden’s giving, one percent would have been $24,500. One half of one percent would have been $12,250. One quarter of one percent would have been $6,125. And one eighth of one percent would have been $3,062 — just below what Biden actually contributed.
“The average American household gives about two percent of adjusted gross income,” says Arthur Brooks, the Syracuse University scholar, soon to take over as head of the American Enterprise Institute, who has done extensive research on American giving. “On average, [Biden] is not giving more than one tenth as much as the average American household, and that is evidence that he doesn’t share charitable values with the average American.”
Byron York 9/15/08 NR
Although liberal families’ incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227). RealClearPolitics - Articles - Conservatives More Liberal Givers
Obama and his wife, Michelle, earned $181,507 to $272,759 each year from 1998-2004.
Their income jumped to $1.6 million in 2005, Obama's first year in the Senate, with the rerelease of his first book, “Dreams from My Father.” They made nearly $1 million in 2006, half of it from his second book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
The Obamas' charitable giving also increased with their newfound wealth.
From 1998-2004, they gave between $1,050-$3,400 each year. In 2005, they gave $77,315, including donations to literacy and anti-poverty campaigns and their church. In 2006, they gave $60,307 to charity.
Up until recent years when their income increased sharply from book revenues and a Senate salary, Obama's family donated a relatively minor amount of its earnings to charity. From 2000 through 2004, the senator and his wife never gave more than $3,500 a year in charitable donations -- about 1 percent of their annual earnings.(Sam Stein Huffington Post) Obama Tax Returns: Low On Story Lines And Charity Donations
According to their tax returns, in 2006 and 2007, the Obamas gave 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. I guess Michelle Obama has to draw the line someplace with all this "giving back" stuff. The Bidens gave 0.15 percent and 0.31 percent of the income to charity.
No wonder Obama doesn't see what the big fuss is over his decision to limit tax deductions for charitable giving. At least that part of Obama's tax plan won't affect his supporters.
Meanwhile, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, George W. Bush had incomes of $179,591, $212,313 and $610,772. His charitable contributions those years were $28,236, $31,914 and $31,292. During his presidency, Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year.
For purposes of comparison, in 2005, Barack Obama made $1.7 million -- more than twice President Bush's 2005 income of $735,180 -- but they both gave about the same amount to charity.
That same year, the heartless Halliburton employee Vice President Dick Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. The following year, in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama's. Maybe when Obama talks about "change" he's referring to his charitable contributions.
Liberals have no intention of actually parting with any of their own wealth or lifting a finger to help the poor. That's for other people to do with what's left of their incomes after the government has taken its increasingly large cut.
As the great liberal intellectual Bertrand Russell explained while scoffing at the idea that he would give his money to charity: "I'm afraid you've got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don't pretend to be Christians."
Ann Coulter Are ‘hope’ And ‘change’ Still Tax-deductible? - Ann Coulter
The convenient cliché propagated by many people is that those who truly care about the needy will be supportive of new or expanded government programs. Those who oppose this approach of throwing endlessly increasing sums of money at social programs are commonly labeled as heartless and lacking in compassion. That is not only a false label but it shows a lack of knowledge about American history as well as a lack of understanding about how the incentives created by many large government programs are fundamentally flawed.
Coerced "charity" via government taxation has several corrosive effects:
Anchor Rising: "Who You Gonna Call?" The Little Platoons
Democrats/Liberals lie about everything.
Here’s the full list of America’s 25 most generous givers :
Warren Buffett
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $88.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion
The legendary investor’s quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s donated more than $40 billion—much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where it’s being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He’s also given billions in stock to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. “The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude,” Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge—an initiative aimed at convincing the world’s billionaires to donate at least half their fortunes to charity—alongside the Gateses. “Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced.”
Bill & Melinda Gates
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $120.7 billion
Lifetime Giving: $29.8 billion
Their two decade old Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which makes about $5 billion a year in grants, jumped into funding research, treatments, tests and vaccines for Covid-19 last year, pledging $1.75 billion to be spent over two years, with the goal of getting the tools to fight the pandemic to people in need everywhere. “Everyone, everywhere deserves to benefit from the science developed in 2020,” Melinda Gates said in a statement in December. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion to $3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the foundation since 2006. For these calculations, Forbes divvies up the grantmaking since 2007 by the Gates Foundation between the Gates couple and Buffett.
George Soros
Giving Focus: Democracy, education, antidiscrimination, healthcare
Net Worth: $8.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $16.8 billion
Soros’ Open Society Foundations operate in 120 countries worldwide, focusing most extensively on fostering democracy and protecting voters’ rights, areas where it budgeted $140 million in 2020. With annual giving of $1.2 billion last year, the foundation’s causes include economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. When Covid-19 hit, it committed $37 million for undocumented immigrants excluded from U.S. federal aid to receive financial assistance. It committed $220 million to support leaders in Black communities across the United States in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Michael Bloomberg
Giving Focus: Climate change, health
Net Worth: $54.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $11.1 billion
The former New York City mayor and Bloomberg LP cofounder has poured more than $11 billion into charitable causes, according to his Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on climate change, gun control and public health. He’s spent more than $1 billion to curb tobacco use over the last decade, and in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion pledge to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater. Bloomberg Philanthropies has also donated more than $330 million to Covid-19 related programs ranging from medical research to paying for meals for frontline healthcare workers. In September, Bloomberg also announced a $100 million pledge over the next four years to fund scholarships at four historically Black medical schools.
Charles “Chuck” Feeney
Giving Focus: Science, human rights, youth
Net Worth: Under $2 million
Lifetime Giving: $8 billion
The former billionaire who set out to die broke has finally met his financial goal. Feeney, who cofounded the wildly successful retail chain Duty Free Shoppers in 1960, began by anonymously giving away parts of his fortune. He eventually went public with his “Giving While Living” idea, which influenced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett when they launched the Giving Pledge in 2010. Of his $8 billion in donations, some $3.7 billion went to education, including $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell. In September 2020, Feeney and his wife Helga shuttered his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, after it gave away the last of its assets.
MacKenzie Scott
Giving Focus: Racial, gender and economic inequality
Net Worth: $55.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.83 billion
In just one year of active philanthropy, Scott has outshined her peers by miles. With help from an undisclosed number of staff and advisory firm Bridgespan Group, she handed out more in grants in six months than The Gates Foundation, which has 1,600 employees, does in a typical year. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in July, she announced that she had donated nearly $1.7 billion to 116 organizations focused on inequality in society related to race, sexual orientation, gender and economic mobility. In December, Scott revealed she had given nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. Scott’s team paid special attention to nonprofits addressing food insecurity, racial inequity and decreasing poverty.
Gordon & Betty Moore
Giving Focus: Science, environment, education
Net Worth: $11.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: $5.15 billion
Two decades ago, the cofounder and longtime CEO of semiconductor giant Intel and his wife launched their foundation, funding it with gifts of Intel stock. The foundation awards about $270 million in grants a year. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. To boost science research, the foundation has funded design and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, a new class of telescope that will allow researchers to see deeper into space.
Eli & Edythe Broad
Giving Focus: Education, arts, science
Net Worth: $6.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.8 billion
In 2020, the retired home building and insurance tycoon and his wife Edythe gave $136 million to various causes, including the Broad Institute which supported Covid-19 testing for college students and voter education and outreach across the country. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundation and are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation, which includes an art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums.
Jim & Marilyn Simons
Giving Focus: STEM research
Net Worth: $23.5 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
A former math professor before he founded quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies in 1982, Simons has dedicated much of his philanthropic giving to STEM research and education. He established the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994. It’s the primary funder for Math for America, a nonprofit that focuses on building a network of skilled high school math and science teachers. The foundation also funds life science research, with gifts to institutions like the New York Genome Center, and supports autism causes with its Autism Research Institute.
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan
Giving Focus: Science, education, criminal justice, election integrity
Net Worth: $90 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
The Facebook founder and CEO celebrated the fifth anniversary of his philanthropic and advocacy arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in 2020. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have mostly focused their recent giving in two areas: Covid-19 relief and election integrity. From expanding coronavirus testing capacity in the state of California to working with the Gates Foundation to speed up development of Covid treatments, CZI gave more than $100 million to pandemic-related funding in 2020. But that figure is dwarfed by the $400 million that CZI donated to nonpartisan organizations “to ensure voters could cast their ballots safely and securely,” according to Zuckerberg and Chan’s annual letter.
Michael & Susan Dell
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, education
Net Worth: $40.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $2.25 billion
Their Michael & Susan Dell Foundation increased its yearly commitments in 2020, mostly to cover pandemic-related needs. The foundation dedicated $80 million to helping support healthcare and education systems as well as nonprofits and small businesses across the country. It also donated $20 million to accelerate the development of a Covid-19 treatment. And it pledged $100 million over 10 years to close the gap in college graduation rates across income levels at the University of Texas at Austin, where Dell sold computers out of his dorm room before dropping out at age 19.
Lynn & Stacy Schusterman
Giving Focus: Education, Jewish causes
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.84 billion
The wife and daughter of late oil billionaire Charles Schusterman run the family’s foundation, which more than doubled its grantmaking in 2020 to nearly $400 million. To spur investment in low-income and underserved communities in the U.S., the foundation donated to LISC, a community development finance group that offers loans at affordable rates. It also supported Feeding America, which works with food banks across the country. And it donated to a partnership between tech firm Propel and nonprofit GiveDirectly, which provided $1,000 cash grants to families in need during the pandemic.
T. Denny Sanford
Giving Focus: Healthcare, education
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.8 billion
The South Dakota mogul has given nearly $1 billion to Sanford Health, formerly the Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System, which operates 46 hospitals and 210 clinics. Sanford has also given $150 million to La Jolla, California-based National University, and pledged another $350 million in donations in 2019. In August 2020, ProPublica reported that Sanford had been investigated by the state's Attorney General's office for possible possession of child pornography, and that the matter was referred to the Department of Justice; it's unclear what happened with the investigation and no charges were filed. An attorney for Sanford said that authorities "did not find information or evidence that supported or resulted in any criminal charges.”
Steve & Connie Ballmer
Giving Focus: Economic mobility
Net Worth: $72.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie gave more than $53 million to Covid-19 relief efforts in 2020, ranging from vaccine testing to food banks to students in need. The couple also gave $7 million that year to gun control advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety. Previously, Ballmer gave $50 million to the University of Oregon (Connie’s alma mater) in 2014 and gave $60 million to the computer science department at Harvard (his alma mater). The couple has directed another $40 million toward other universities and $30 million toward children’s health and education.
Leonard Lauder
Giving Focus: Arts, science
Net Worth: $22 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.4 billion
The elder son of makeup maven Estee Lauder, Leonard Lauder gave his massive Cubist art collection—worth more than $1 billion—to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. He and his billionaire brother, Ronald, have also helped raise millions for the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, which they co-chair. The organization has awarded more than $150 million in funding for research on Alzheimer’s disease at biotech companies and academic centers in 19 countries.
Donald Bren
Giving Focus: Education, conservation
Net Worth: $15.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of California’s Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. The bulk of his giving is a 2010 gift of 20,000 acres of parkland to Orange County, part of which established the Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Since Bren took over the Irvine Company in the 1980s, the firm has designated more than 50,000 acres of land as open space and protected parkland.
George Kaiser
Giving Focus: Education, health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: $5.4 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Oklahoma oil and banking baron is the largest philanthropist in his state. Focused on his home city of Tulsa, his George Kaiser Family Foundation has paid out nearly $1.3 billion in contributions and grants to childhood education and community health programs in the city, including gifts to local nonprofits and social service agencies. In 2018, Kaiser opened The Gathering Place, a 66-acre park in Tulsa that’s the largest public park in the U.S. that was built with private funds. "If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty," he told Forbes in 2011. "Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive and they should end up with the same tools for success."
Charles Koch
Giving Focus: Education, poverty, criminal justice
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The Kansas native presides over Koch Industries, America's largest private company. Much of his giving is done through the Charles Koch Foundation, which focuses on education and criminal justice, and the Stand Together Foundation, which focuses on poverty related issues. In 2020, Stand Together launched the GiveTogetherNow initiative, which raised $120 million from the likes of Google and Stripe to provide more than 240,000 families with $500 in cash assistance.
Julia Koch & family
Giving Focus: Medical research, arts and culture
Net Worth: $44.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The widow of industrialist David Koch (d. 2019) has focused much of her giving on medical and art causes. Alongside David, she has given over $700 million to medical institutions, including more than $200 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and some $300 million to arts and culture organizations, including more than $100 million to Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. David, former executive vice president of Koch Industries and Charles Koch's younger brother, was also a major donor to his alma maters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Deerfield Academy.
Pierre Omidyar
Giving Focus: Poverty alleviation, human rights, education
Net Worth: $21.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
The eBay founder’s Omidyar Group donates to causes around the world, including education opportunities in Africa and India, and relief for refugees in countries like South Sudan and Syria. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Omidyar and his wife donated more than $10 million to help address the impact of the crisis, including a $1 million donation in Hawaii, where they reside. Luminate, the Group’s citizen engagement arm—which has doled out nearly $400 million since its launch—increased its support for social justice organizations, including the civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change, following the Black Lives Matter protests in June.
Julian Robertson Jr.
Giving Focus: Environment, education, medical research
Net Worth: $4.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
A pioneer of the modern hedge fund industry, Julian Robertson Jr. established the Robertson Foundation in 1996 to support the environment, education and medical research. His foundation cofounded the New York City Charter School Center and created the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program to fund undergraduate education at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill. Robertson has established a handful of other charitable foundations, including the Tiger Foundation, the Aotearoa and the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation.
Ted Turner
Giving Focus: United Nations, environment
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.3 billion
In 1997, the man behind Turner Broadcasting and CNN made a historic $1 billion pledge that launched the United Nations Foundation. While the U.N. cannot directly raise money from philanthropists, the U.N. Foundation can—using the funds to support the intergovernmental organization’s peacekeeping, public health and environmental activities across the world. He fulfilled his big U.N. pledge in 2014. Turner, who has donated at least $300 million to other causes including land, water and species conservation through his own foundation, has said his U.N. contribution “is the best investment I’ve ever made.”
John & Laura Arnold
Giving Focus: Education, criminal justice, health
Net Worth: $3.3 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.24 billion
Arnold, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife focus on criminal justice, healthcare and education reform. Their Arnold Ventures has pumped more than $57 million into policing initiatives, including a $2 million gift to the University of Cincinnati in 2020 to “test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police.” They’ve also put nearly $100 million into programs focused on making prescription drugs cheaper and more accessible, $68 million into higher education initiatives and $22 million toward reproductive health causes.
Amos Hostetter Jr.
Giving Focus: Arts, climate, education
Net Worth: $3.6 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Hostetter built a fortune as a cable TV pioneer and is working to give it away through his Boston-based Barr Foundation, which makes about $60 million in grants a year. To fight climate change, the foundation has backed efforts to reduce emissions from buildings and transportation. In 2020 it extended support to nonprofits struggling during the pandemic.
Phil Knight & family
Giving Focus: Education
Net Worth: $52.9 billion
Lifetime Giving: $1.2 billion
Knight, who cofounded the sportswear giant Nike with his former track coach at the University of Oregon, pledged nearly $800 million to the university, including a $27 million donation to renovate the campus library, a $500 million commitment to establish a new applied sciences research center and a $100 million gift to help finance construction of the school's new basketball venue, Matthew Knight Arena, named after his late son. He has also committed large sums to the Oregon Health & Science University and Stanford, where he got his MBA.
Do the math and get back with a list of the percent of their wealth these folks donated.
And which one did you vote for for President????
Deflect much? I might have voted for Bloomberg but I think he quit the primary before I got a chance. Biden is not a billionaire but Trump is. I didn't see Trump's name on the list but I do seem to recall his 'charity' being involved in legal issues and losing its status as a charity.
PoliticalChic
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Deflect????
The issue was charity and you voted for free loaders who never gave even 1° of their income in charity.
How about you?
DrLove
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The worst part of her run on screeds is her arrogance. Chic prolly wouldn’t bother if she knew her total readership is around 2 or 3.Wrong kiddy, I merely wondered at why anyone would write so much gibberish that no other human would ever read. LOL if I pick up a book and flip thru the 2000 pages does that mean that I read the book in your psychotic mind?What makes you believe that you are so important that any other human would read all of your ramblings?Actually, the proof is in: fish do need a bicycle. I’ll get to the elephant part.
1.In dozens of ways we have seen the failure of the Left’s pronouncements and promises, from the French Revolution, to the Soviet and Maoist versions, and to our ersatz communist party, the Democrats.
Today’s example is the central doctrine of the feminist version of Leftism….you may recall their battle cry: Dunn coined the famous catch phrase: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," which was subsequently popularized by Gloria Steinem and became a popular slogan among feminists. (Wikipedia).
Nowhere is the failure of that claim more poignant, more stark, than in the black community, where it is actually unusual for a child to be brought up in an intact nuclear family….thanks to the Democrats.
2. I’ve documented elsewhere the terrible results for children as a result of accepting the anti-biblical values advanced by the Left, the end of marriage and the destruction of the nuclear family.
The Democrat's Risen Yahweh, the one they called god, Jesus, and the messiah, said this:
" But if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.
You and I know how true this is in the African-American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled – doubled – since we were children. We know the statistics – that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it."
Obama’s Father’s Day Remarks (Published 2008)
www.nytimes.com
Where are any of those conditions attributable to 'white privilege' or that bogus 'racism'?
Nope.
3. Which brings us to an essay by a real Liberal, not the Fascist variety we have leading the Democrat Party, Wm. Raspberry, writing in the Washington Post a decade before Bezos destroyed the paper:
“The Elephants' Tale
…crisis: the unexplained slaughter of white rhinos, an endangered species. Young bull elephants were harassing the rhinos, for no apparent reason -- throwing sticks at them, menacing them, chasing them over great distances, and finally stomping them to death.
Moreover, these now teenage members of the group that had been transported from Kruger were being led by a handful of particularly bad actors. One of these, dubbed Tom Thumb by the rangers, accumulated the game park equivalent of a videotaped rap sheet: several instances of chasing white rhinos, marauding, aggressive interaction with a tourist vehicle.
...the rangers and scientists detected a pattern: The young sexually active bulls, "suffering from an excess of testosterone," were becoming increasingly violent. Indeed, it seemed for a time that more of them might have to be killed.
Then last year someone got the bright idea of bringing some older, mature bulls to Pilanesberg (there was, by then, the technology to transport the bigger animals). Perhaps the bigger, stronger males could rein in the teenagers.
The gamble paid off, for reasons both obvious and subtle. The bigger bulls, establishing the natural hierarchy, became the dominant sexual partners for the females. The resulting reduction in sexual activity on the part of the young bulls also lowered their testosterone levels and reduced their violent behavior.
But it wasn't just a matter of size-based intimidation. The young bulls (after a few early and futile skirmishes with the "Big Daddies") started following the older bulls around -- obviously enjoying the association with the adult males, yielding to their discipline and learning from them proper elephant behavior.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...ts-tale/808019f9-5004-4426-96db-c9441134ca11/
You gettin' this????
But......It may be too late to get enough bicycles for the needy fish, and there may not be enough bull elephants.
No society lasts forever….and the Democrat poison has had a lasting effect.
You did.
I guess you proved it for me.
Get a life
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