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>The question is whether the impact he wants to have is something that needs (or deserves) preferential tax treatment. Which is itself really a question about
by 794CD01 10y ago
>The question is whether the impact he wants to have is something that needs (or deserves) preferential tax treatment.
Which is itself really a question about whether the government should be able to spend that money how it likes, or whether the zuckster should be able to spend it how he likes. Has the American government really earned your trust in its competence in managing money?
- ryandrake 10y agoIs "managed to amass a fortune" adequate qualification for ANYONE to decide which social good gets funded and which one does not?
- davidivadavid 10y agoBut Zuckerberg doesn't decide "which social good gets funded and which one does not." Things will or will not get funded independently of Zuckerberg's decision to fund or not fund additional things. He decides where to spend his own money. Does he need a qualification for that?
- 794CD01 10y agoPerhaps not adequate, but a hell of a lot less inadequate than "got a job in the government bureaucracy" or even worse, "got elected by the voting public".