Will Bono donate all his money to stop child famine ??
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Jim the Sunderer said:
Spends £5000 on pink sunglasses, asks the working classes to donate to foreign breeding types poor African children.
They're all the f
kibg same. Appeal on tv for us to stump up, make charideeee songs to make people donate their cash, the hold onto their millions.Take Jay Z for instance.
http://www.thegrio.com/money/jay-z-reportedly-only...
Whereas the most hated man in the computing world, Mr Gates...
'As of 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates were the second-most generous philanthropists in America, having given over $28 billion to charity.[76] They plan to eventually give 95% of their wealth to charity.'
Wiki quote.
Mojooo said:
As a U2 fan I am biased, but I would be very surprised if he doesnt donate a fair chunk.
Conversely, I'm of the opinion that U2 are guilty of serial production of a catalogue of atonal celebrations of musical onanism, overlaid with the caterwauling of crashingly self-indulgent lyrics favoured only by the most repressed form of twonkish spod.But I'd also be surprised if Bono doesn't quietly spring a few quid in the direction of some deserving causes either.
A rich man has less chance of entering Heaven than does a camel have a chance of passing through the eye of a needle, but Bono understands that if he doesn't raise his game he's going straight to Hell with his head stuffed up a camel's arse.
Edited by eharding on Saturday 19th May 00:39
Mojooo said:
As a U2 fan I am biased, but I would be very surprised if he doesnt donate a fair chunk.
Neither here nor there & I suspect he'll most likely donate what sounds like a large sum to Joe but absolute terms will be nothing like significant/admirable/financially material, in a sense (as per Gates/Buffett etc, as already mentioned). A more cynical soul than me would suggest it may well be related to any impending tax liability 
wollowizard said:
He won't even pay his tax to his home country that desperately needs it, so he has little chance of saving anybody else.
Well as mentioned above a bet if he does donate its for the tax write off rather than cause he wants to.I do remember him being extremely pissed off with Ireland when they abolished the Authors and Artists non taxation rules... meaning the first £200k was tax free and then the rest is taxed like the rest of us.
This is PH - tax avoidance isn't just welcomed - its encouraged!
Bono is pretty loaded, the last couple of world tours they have done have pulled in hundreds of millions. Plus his invesment company is quite often in the news - for exmaple, they have a stake in FB could be worth near 1bn dollars, apparently.
If he was worth say 1bn then I think a couple of hundred million would be reasonable to pay up. It may be that he doesn't actually have that much in raw cash though.
Also, he has his ONE campaign thing, which is meant to be a more political type thing a sopposed to directly supplying aid.
Bono is pretty loaded, the last couple of world tours they have done have pulled in hundreds of millions. Plus his invesment company is quite often in the news - for exmaple, they have a stake in FB could be worth near 1bn dollars, apparently.
If he was worth say 1bn then I think a couple of hundred million would be reasonable to pay up. It may be that he doesn't actually have that much in raw cash though.
Also, he has his ONE campaign thing, which is meant to be a more political type thing a sopposed to directly supplying aid.
Mojooo said:
This is PH - tax avoidance isn't just welcomed - its encouraged!
It's one thing wanting to keep what you have earned but you can't do that why encouraging others not to do the same. Nobody like a hypocrite not even PH.ETA I he gave half of his sunstantial wealth away, he would still be very rich and even more popular.
If I gave half of my wealth away i would be a little more poor and probably considered stupid.
Edited by wollowizard on Saturday 19th May 05:03
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