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Originally posted by CaramonLS@Sep 28 2004, 08:05 PM
Don't read too much into this. They mostly do it for tax breaks.
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Who cares why they do it? Certainly not the people that benefit. 23 billion dollars is 23 billion dollars.
Regarding Gates, I read something about him long ago that he plans to give almost all of it away before he dies, and leave his children with "only" 50 million dollars each. That is an amazing amount of money to literally give away, tax break or not, and if he's dead, I don't think the tax break matters much.
On a more local note -- this reminds me of the Flames minority owner who gave 18 million bucks to the U of C a few weeks back. Good for him.l