Coquettish Rebirth

In 06, Bill Gates announced that he would officially retire in June 08, and then he would officially donate all the tens of billions of dollars of his and his wife's property to charity, leaving no money for their children. Penny.Doesn't that sound like Bill Gates is too tall?In fact, it is not necessarily true. From a certain point of view, it is just a measure to prevent children from being too "rich-second generation" and avoiding taxes.

Why do you say that?Very simple, the inheritance tax in the United States is 40%-50%. Assuming that Bill Gates has a net worth of 800 billion US dollars, if he and his wife pass all the inheritance to their children after death, then about half of it must be handed over. For the US government!Let alone someone else at this time, even Jia Hongjian is not happy!He has worked so hard all his life to build such a big business, but he ended up working for the U.S. government?So what to do?It just so happens that the United States and other European and American countries basically have such a policy that donations to charity can be tax-free, so a reasonable and unreasonable tax avoidance plan came into being-donate the inheritance to charity, and then let your children control it Isn't this charity over?

That's right!It is most suitable to explain this stuff with an Indian joke-in the Indian caste system, the highest caste is the Brahmin class, that is, the monk class.Such a class of monks controls a series of things such as beliefs.And before the people of such a class die, they have to pay all their property to their gods!Of course, it is said that it is a tribute to the gods, but it is actually a tribute to the temple.So religious, isn't it?The Brahmin class is the wealthiest class in India. When their people die, they will donate all their wealth to the faith and leave no money for their children!After receiving the wealth, the elders of the temple turned their heads to look at the poor child of the donor—how pitiful this child is, the family was so rich, but his parents donated all their property to the gods before they died , too pious!no.We can't let such a pious person have no future for their children!So let's donate to him again!So, he "donated" the money donated by his parents piously to the child...

Isn't this just taking off your pants and farting?Almost, but how pious and kind it seems!In fact, philanthropy in Europe and the United States is often the same!Many rich people donate their money when they are alive because they can reduce or even get tax-free—for example, earning 50 a year.Then donate 5 yuan, and reduce taxes on the other 45 yuan. In the end, the money you get in your hands is still more than the 50 yuan that you don’t donate after tax deductions.And what about Bill Gates who donated all his money after his death?Then there is something to be said, because it is all donated, and the government will definitely not collect taxes.But the money is not in the name of the children, is it?So what about letting your children become executives of this charity?Then the children can control the money their parents have earned throughout their lives.Right?

And the most important thing is that in fact, no one stipulates that they must spend all their money on good deeds in charities all over the world!That's right, even an institution like the Red Cross will first use donations to maintain its own operations before choosing a part of the funds to do good deeds!Relatively official Red Cross institutions are like this, so what about more private charities?Anyway, according to the laws of European and American countries, only 5% of their annual net increase in assets is limited to be used for good deeds!what does this mean?It means that after the death of his parents, little A controls such a foundation donated by his parents for a lifetime of wealth, and makes various investments every year.After transferring 500 million U.S. dollars, you only need to use 9500 million U.S. dollars to do good deeds!The remaining [-] million US dollars...then you can continue to invest, and then "maintain your own operations"!

There is something to be said about maintaining one’s own operations—for example, this little A, as the boss of the foundation, earns a salary of tens of millions of dollars every year, isn’t it an exaggeration?After all, the annual salary of the CEO of a large American company is also this amount!It even seems like the foundation has made a lot of money by investing, so it’s okay to give this little A some “dividends”, right?Use monetary rewards to stimulate the enthusiasm of executives!So in the end, this little A is obviously "self-made", and has no wealth at all.Just relying on "working" for charity organizations, the money earned is not much worse than that of my parents back then!What a clever idea!At the same time, since then, this little A still has to go to work and do a certain career.At the same time, he also gets a certain amount of money every year, so at least Little A won't have tens of billions of dollars in his hand at one time, and then just play around all day long, right?At least as the boss of a charity organization, the people he sees all day are all kinds of celebrities, at least he won't learn too badly, right?In fact, there are many such things behind the philanthropy in Europe and the United States!Not saying 100% is the case.This is the case at least 80.00% of the time!

Of course, this does not mean that Bill Gates is not noble—after all, after all his assets are donated, 5% of the money earned through investment will still be used for charity, isn’t it?And 5% is the lower limit stipulated by the law. Bill Gates and his foundation may spend even more!And no matter what, it is true that the money is spent on people and things that need help, which always has objective benefits.This principle is equivalent to Zigong redeeming people and Zilu accepting cattle!What is Zigong Redeemer?There is a law in the state of Lu that if Lu people see their compatriots suffer misfortune and become slaves in foreign countries, as long as they can redeem these people and help them regain their freedom, they can get monetary compensation and rewards from the state.

Zigong, a student of Confucius, redeemed Lu people from abroad, but he did not receive money from the state.Confucius said: "Duanmuci, you are wrong! What the saints do can be used to change the customs of the people, and the teachings can be passed on to the people, not just for their own behavior. Now there are fewer rich people and more poor people in the country of Lu. The compensation is nothing to you; but if you don’t receive the compensation, there will be no one in the country of Lu to redeem your compatriots who died.” Zilu rescued a drowning man, and the man thanked him for sending a cow, Zilu accepted it.Confucius said happily: "From then on, the people of Lu will be brave enough to rescue those who fall into the water."

So this is what happened. If Bill Gates donated all his net worth, only part of it was good deeds, maybe even a very small part, and the rest was left to his children. , Then in the end, it is true that the money is spent on the common people, isn't it?And if everyone is required to be like a saint, if Bill Gates is required to donate money, all the money must be used to do good deeds, and his children cannot be allowed to spend a penny, then Bill Gates even has a lot of money. of wealthy Americans simply don’t give away money!Is this a good thing for the country and the poor?It doesn’t really matter whether you intentionally do good deeds subjectively, what matters is whether you do deeds that are beneficial to others objectively!As long as you do something objectively beneficial to others, it is a good thing!

Similarly, the cooperation plan between Jia Hongjian and Obama is indeed beneficial to the poor—after all, who else in the world is unemployed and needs assistance, except the poor?At least most of them are poor!So such a plan, to a certain extent, is in line with the purpose of the charitable foundation established by Bill Gates and his wife—the purpose of their Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to reduce the number of people in the world. of inequality.To be honest, it is clear that the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States was created by financial giants. It is the CEOs of various financial giants who chose risky businesses to do crazily in order to achieve good performance.When the market is good, the risky business does not show the risk, and brings a lot of returns, allowing these CEOs to get a lot of dividends and bonuses. downfall.Then, these CEO life winners, one by one, still took the salaries and bonuses given by the company, and then fired the ordinary employees in the company with ferocity, and even led to the collapse of other small and medium-sized enterprises in the country, and then more people unemployment!

Isn't this inequality!Those who created the crisis were not punished, and even received the money as usual, while those who obviously only obeyed orders and had nothing to do with them were implicated and lost their jobs. Not to mention, the whole family may be kicked out of the house to sleep on the street at any time Come on, isn't this unequal?Therefore, Bill Gates and his wife's foundation, after hearing Jia Hongjian's description, quickly decided to inject a sum of money into such a project!Of course, because this project Jia Hongjian said in advance that it is a non-profit project, the project itself does not expect to make money, so Bill Gates and his wife did not spend a lot of money in it-speaking of it, the financial resources of Bill Gates and his wife are really great. If you want to spend a lot of money, not to mention spending tens of billions, at least two or three billion US dollars are taken casually!After all, his net worth is 30 billion US dollars!

But in fact, in the end, Bill Gates and his wife only donated 5000 million US dollars.Jia Hongjian didn't complain about this, and he didn't even look down on Bill Gates and his wife, nor was he disappointed—he didn't want the money himself, and he didn't expect to get much money from others!He asked everyone to come and invest, just to prevent the Republican Party from making a fuss about the fact that Jia Hongjian is the only Chinese who pays!So what he needs is rich men such as whites and blacks from the United States to come and sign up. If everyone is named, then naturally he, Jia Hongjian, will not be so glaring, right? (~^~)