Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. (George Sand)

groppet: Thats how the rich stay rich. Making people think they gave to a charity.

wut

That's their secret? You'll need to explain this one. That makes no sense.

Everyone who is surprised by this should stand up immediately.

Headso: That is pretty slick, suck it middle class Americans!!! haha you have to pay all these taxes and can never utilize such tactics to mitigate them. oh crap I just remembered I am middle class too... oh well just so long as it makes libs mad it is worth it.

My teabagger uncle actually said that about recent WI GOP legislation (the collective bargaining stuff). Both his parents were unionized public employees, and his brother was a private-sector unionized employee. How it is that he's now walking around spouting off nonsense about how union employees and public workers are the scourge of the country is beyond any of us. Propaganda is an amazing thing.

Trump is a cocksucker. Worthless as shiat.

tricycleracer: Why is "start a foundation" on the accountant checklist for rich clients? I'm not even talking about the famous ones who do it for PR.

Because then you can start buying things and "donating" them to the foundation.
I know several wealthy people who are collectors. They all have a "museum" that is "officially" the owner of their collections. When they buy something they fancy, they donate it to their "museum" and get a tax deduction.
Of course they are in control of that "museum" and will later sell the item and keep the money if they want. The IRS doesn't really do much enforcing with 501(c)3 corporations.

A private "foundation" is also a good way to give an appearance of being generous, yet still retain control of the money. Oh, did I mention the "donations" are tax deductible? Your foundation can then pay for all sorts of stuff for you claiming it as a legitimate expense.

I know a guy who "gives millions" away to charity (so he says), turns out most every penny goes to a foundation he started that he benefits from in some way. Example: foundations that benefit the local police. He can get away with almost anything now a days because of the amount of money he has thrown at the police. Via his foundations of course.

President Trump

You Liberals are jealous of a truly successful man who is living the American dream.

A classy American dream filled with respectable class. From the classy choices to the classy outcomes, you can not deny that this man is pure 24 karat class in an ocean of platinum class that ebbs and flows from a gigantic (and classy) diamond moon in a universe of visible class but mostly dark-class (which is even more classy than regular class).

Some people see their class as half empty. You, friends, have no class.

No class.

-10/10. Not even believable, plus your toupee have to have been blown sideways. Or you got bad meth.

If Donald Trump is elected president I will kill myself. Suicide note will be posted on Fark.