just- Posted January 27, 2006 CID Share Posted January 27, 2006 Gates gives $600m more to stop TB he won an award i think last year in conjuction with the guys from Live Aid for being the person to raise more awareness of poverty or coming up with more cash for poor and people in need he and his wife do give an hell of a lot of money to chairty what do u guys think about this news ? http://www.testmy.net/articles/article-329#more-329 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted January 27, 2006 CID Share Posted January 27, 2006 He does one huge donation every year.. I guess it is a way to get his taxes lower? I mean $600 million.. that is more than most lottery jackpots before taxes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 27, 2006 CID Share Posted January 27, 2006 600 million is alot of ca$h, but for someone like bill gates it's not even a penny in a childs piggy bank, and most of it probably will be a tax write off. If he wants to give some money away he can send a few million my way, and i won't even mind if he uses it as a tax write off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted January 27, 2006 CID Share Posted January 27, 2006 If I remember correctly.. When he dies his children will NOT be recieving all of his money... instead it will be dontated to organizations around the world.. Of course they will get some but not all! I think it is a great thing for someone who has that much money to do something productive with it instead of just allowing it to site in a bank account some where in the world. On this subject.. http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70072-0.html?tw Gate vs. Jobs.. in the area of helping the world.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 27, 2006 CID Share Posted January 27, 2006 I also read that i believe if memory serves me right each child will get 10 million, or they will get 10 million between the lot of them either way i remember the 10 million mark being thrown around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted January 27, 2006 CID Share Posted January 27, 2006 yeah it was something like that.. nothing much in the grand scheme of things but still.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted January 27, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 27, 2006 i though it was like 1 to 3 billion each maybe he has changed his mind and only millions now but yeah we all agree he is not giving his all money to the kids good idea few millions is enough to get ur self a degree in a university and find a job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frodoboy Posted January 28, 2006 CID Share Posted January 28, 2006 Don't forget, even if he only gives them a few million each, they will probably inherit the business like the Walton clan did from Sam. That alone would be worth billions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted January 28, 2006 CID Share Posted January 28, 2006 They might or might not get part of his business. Gates does not own microsoft soley he owns part of it many other people own just as much these days as gates does it's call share holders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovr138 Posted January 28, 2006 CID Share Posted January 28, 2006 what i've read is that Bill Gates is gonna give away 90% of all his money to charity, he's only leaving his kids w/ 10%. Here's were I got it from <a href=http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10/11b_top_10_list.html>this site</a>, i've also read it in other places but that's the one i could find right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted January 28, 2006 CID Share Posted January 28, 2006 Yeah.. There are numbers floating around.. We have all seen something in that area.. my guess is that it is going to be minimal because Gates had to work to get where he is today.. BTW Welcome to the Fourm rovr138! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted January 29, 2006 CID Share Posted January 29, 2006 Yeah didn't Gates give more to africa than the U.N. Imagine the bragging rights Gates sittin around with his buddies in a bar naw man i gave more money to africa than the U.N you know i was like damn someone doesnt have windows now there has to be something done there. So i wrote a check for the same amount that the U.N. did so we can one day see these people with a windows cell phone. lol You know i dont have windows either send a few million this way so i can buy a good quilaty computer and have a litlle left over. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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