A reclusive billionaire, anti-tax crusader and major financial backer of Donald Trump has been named as the anonymous private donor who gave $130m to the government to help pay US troops during the federal shutdown that is now in its fourth week, according to the New York Times.
The donation, which equates to about $100 per service member, appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending funds in advance or in excess of congressional appropriations – and from accepting voluntary services “except in the case of emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property”.
Potential penalties for violations include both administrative and criminal sanctions such as suspension or removal from duty, fines and imprisonment.
Anti-tax advocate gives government $130 million to not pay taxes.
These are the smartest people.
His family’s net worth is estimated at $14B. It’s a down-payment on a tax cut that will save him much more.
This’ll make him billions. It was smart
He already has billions more than he could spend in a lifetime. It isn’t smart it’s deranged.
Yep. Billionaires only care about that number (their net worth) going up. It doesn’t help them in any substantive way when the number goes up. But they don’t have anything else to give their lives meaning. Just to have some number go up and to have their number be higher than other people’s numbers.
If they didn’t care about that number, and only cared about their selfish lifestyle, without comparing to others, for example, then with the value of money today, they’d probably stop bothering to hoard money long before they hit a billion dollars. It’s a pathetic excuse for a life to keep accumulating like billionaires do. They don’t care who they hurt as long as that fucking number gets bigger.
I wonder how much in total his taxes would contribute to the military if he just played by the rules and wasn’t an evil twat. Like that’s clearly well beyond what 99% of the US could ever earn in their life, let alone pay into taxes. Further more for every dollar you put into taxes, not all of it goes to the military. Forget still you can be sure this asshat has greased some palms of politicians throughout his life. Between the $130M and the
bribestotes legal campaign donations, what would his effective tax rate have needed to be to get to that number?
Doesn’t most of this money go to the mercenaries? Oh I mean military *
appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act,
If we’d had this calibur of journalism about a century ago they would have said the Hindenburg appeared to be experiencing a potential flight delay, I swear
Potential penalties for violations include both administrative and criminal sanctions such as suspension or removal from duty, fines and imprisonment
I mean, this is the sound of a journalist screaming internally “SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING”, but the time to start screaming externally was a while ago
His wiki bio indicates this guy has given exactly nothing to society. Yet here he is, using his unearned wealth to purchase the military.
He gave Colorado an anti-Venezuela billboard. :P
It’s almost as if billionaire robber baron is a serious mental health crisis, and they’re using all their money to make sure nobody can do anything about it.
Meanwhile I’m pretty sure that Germany has set aside a similar amount of funds to ensure that all of the military personnel in Rammstein Base are paid, and are sending the US government an invoice for the funds they are giving US military so they don’t have a pay gap. Something like €100,000,000 were set aside so that our troops in Germany do not suffer any pay delays.
Yeah but does that buy a flashy dictator parade??? /s
Two things to note.
1:> This happens at the same time the Carrier Strike Group of the world’s “most lethal combat platform” is pulled out of the European theater to play drug cop in the Caribbean.
2:> This…
Bribes
Geez the only file photo they have of the guy smells like unfiltered Pall Malls
Where does he live?
