I would like to comment on the recent tax findings of the leader of of one of the most powerful people in the world, our president. I wish I had more information regarding previous presidents and possible tax fraud findings of the past but I do not have that information. What information we all have is what was found last week regarding Donald Trumps tax evasion. We also have a direct quote of Trump evading Chris Webbers direct questioning of how much he paid in taxes in 2016 and 2017. Donald Trump should have been paying millions of dollars of taxes but in 2016 and 2017 he paid 750 dollars both years. That is an enormous amount of money that could have been put towards conservation efforts. Actors such as Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio have spent roughly 3 million dollars in efforts to conserve the environment with DiCaprio using it to conserve ocean wildlife and Penn sponsoring Global Wildlife conservation. Our president a man with a net worth of 2 and a half billion dollars continuously neglects global conservation and finds loop holes to keep his money for himself to spend on things like skyscrapers and ways for the 1 percenters to make more money for themselves. Jeff Bezos is another example. He could completely abolish world hunger with a fraction of his net worth. He has roughly 175 billion dollars and it would cost roughly 11 billion dollars to end world hunger for a year. This acts of avarice and greed perpetuate the world to be in its current state and it is appalling to think that so many millions of lives hang in the balance of how a man like Bezos feels waking up in the morning.
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We actually do have a lot of that information about previous presidents, it's only the current occupant who's transgressed the "norm" of revealing that information prior to election. On the other hand, nobody thinks Drumpf invented tax fraud.
ReplyDeleteBut while wealthy people as a class do seem more voluntarily philanthropic than they used to be (with a few high-profile exceptions like the Carnegies and Rockefellers), waiting for them to address world hunger on their own initiative is not a promising strategy. We're going to have to compel them to free a greater portion of their assets. That's what societies who value social justice and equity do.