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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
Interestingly, the amount of private donations by the wealthy is staggering and this is on top of the huge amount of taxes paid by them. I mean Blook at Turner and Gates alone not to mention Oprah, who are amongst the weatlthiest of the wealthiest.
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I'm not saying that wealthy people don't give to charity. But it's a drop in the bucket. Why should someone who makes $10 million a year piss and moan if they have to pay $4 million in taxes? So it means they can't have that 5th vacation house on the south of France...the farthest away from Texas I've ever traveled is Missouri.
I guess I just find extravagance obscene.
Like my friend who lives alone and yet just bought a 5 bedroom house and complains about being shackled to a job he hates, but can't afford to quit because he has all this newfound "responsibility." Yet he looks down on me as a slacker...umm...he's the one who's up to his eyeballs in debt while I don't buy a damn thing I haven't worked to earn the money to buy. Exactly who is the responsible one in this scenario? I realize that has nothing to do with the rest of the post, it's just a little tangent.
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But others donate and often. So, I think the statement "people who think they have no obligation to help or contribute to the well-being of anyone other than themselves and possibly their immediate families . . . . " is not very fair though a small minority of those people may exist.
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It's not unfair. I've met people who think this.