金钱暗流

• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  One attractive solution was to donate to their own philanthropic foundations. By doing so, they could get the tax deductions and still keep control of how the charitable funds were spent....Private foundations have very few legal restrictions. They are required to dontate at least five percent of their asset value every year to public charities - referred to as "nonprofit organizations". In exchange, the donors are granted deductions, enabling them to reduce their income taxes dramatically. This arrangement enables the wealthy to simultaneously receive the generous tax subsidies and use their foundations to impact the society as they please. In addition, the process often confers an aura of generosity and public-spiritedness on the donors, acting as a salve against class resentment..No am...
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  Like the Koch family, the Scaifes designed the trusts so that all net income had to be donated to nonprofit organizations for the next 20 years. After that, the principal of USD 50 million could pass to each of the Scaifes offspring free from inheritance tax.
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  In the view of Kochs and other members of the libertarian party, government should be reduced to a skeleton function: the protection of individual and property rights.
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  When he proposed to his future wife, liz, he reportedly did so over the phone, and she could hear him flipping through his busy date book in search for an open day for the wedding. In preparation, he required her to study free-market economics.
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  Unlike his brothers, Frederick preferred to keep most of his donations anonymous, explaining to friends that his father had taught them to be modest and taking credit for charity was vulgar.
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  Charles Koch has often lauded the virtuous habits it takes to succeed, publishing a book on the subject in 2007 called The Science of Success. He has been less forthcoming about his inheritance. His brother, David, in contrast, has made less pretense of being self-made. He joked about his good fortune in a 2003 speech to alumni at Deerfield Academy.....He said, you might ask, how does David Koch happen to have the wealth to be so generous? Well, let me tell you a story. It all started when I was a little boy. One day, my father gave me an apple, I soon sold it for five dollars and bought two apples and sold them for ten. Then I bought four apples and sold them for twenty. Well, this went on day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, until my father died and left me...
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  Bill described an emotionally wrenching confrontation in the mid 1960s in which he, Charles, and David tried to force their elder brother Frederick, who they believed was gay, to relinquish his claim to a share of the family company, or else they threatened to expose his private life to his father.
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  She described "chasing" her father around the house, trying to impress him with her interest in economics, and "staring down that dark well of nothing you will ever be good enough you privileged waste of flesh."
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  Paul Singer....and Elliott Management. Dubbed a vulture fund by critics, it was controversial for buying distressed debt in economically failing countries at a discount and then taking aggressive legal action to force the strapped nations, which had expected their loans to be forgiven, to instead pay him back at a profit.
• hikarururururu

  2018-03-26
  What mattered most, free-market advocates argued, was not equality of results but rather equality of opportunity. As the conservative Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote,"A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom... On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality.