billionaires love holding up philanthropy as a shield to hide the fact that their philanthropy costs way, WAY less than they would pay in taxes if they, yanno, were actually forced to contribute their fair share in taxes. if they paid taxes we wouldn't need their philanthropy https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1185974197085978624 …
Maybe there should be some kind of "vote on where the billionaire taxes go", so the government doesn't just use it to fund whatever lobbyists tell them to