by springrain » Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:24 pm
McPhisto wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:23 pm
What are the odds that all the virtue-signalling internet forum posters so disgusted by the charitable giving choices of the wealthy elites have themselves donated fuck-all to the "homeless starving kids" of the world?
I'd guess that the odds might be in your favour.
But shall we take a closer look at these fine chaps and their donations?
As we all know,
Cheeearidee is such a good tax break:
Billionaire François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of the Kering group that owns the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent fashion brands, who pledged €100m.
However, as sources have pointed out on Twitter, the Pinault family is apparently seeking a huge tax break (90 percent!) to off-set their donation to help rebuild the famous cathedral.
https://www.fatherly.com/news/billionai ... otre-dame/
Let’s move on to:
Bernard Arnault's family and their company LVMH, a business empire which includes Louis Vuitton and Sephora, who pledged €200m.
This fat cat was actually granted a huge tax concession by the so-called moderate, Macron!
Macron, despised by workers in France as the “president of the rich,” subordinates every question to the financial aristocracy’s drive for self-enrichment. His tax cuts for the rich allowed billionaire Bernard Arnault to increase his personal wealth by over €22 billion last year alone.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/0 ... s-a17.html
Who’s next? Ah, yes:
French cosmetics giant L'Oreal and its founding Bettencourt family promised to give €200m.
This birch (Mrs Bettencourt) was almost a byword for corruption. She died in 2017, but the family tradition has ever been thus:
In 2010, the family soap opera also exploded into a government scandal after tape recordings secretly made by the dowager’s butler, and accusations by a former family accountant, suggested that Mrs. Bettencourt had kept $98 million in secret Swiss bank accounts, evaded taxes, given envelopes of cash to cabinet ministers and made illegal campaign contributions to Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before his election to the French presidency in 2007.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/worl ... oreal.html
And there’s Total:
while oil giant Total pledged €100m.
Embroiled in scandals, especially after that ‘wonderful-for-business’ Iraq War, 2003:
The court case has exposed the link between the top levels of the French state and a shadowy network of middlemen, outright crooks and corrupt businessmen. Elf former Chief Executive Loik Le Floch-Prigent has been accused of using company money to pay his divorce settlement, with the permission of the late French President Francois Mitterrand.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/07/tota-j11.html
Great citizens, huh?
[quote=McPhisto post_id=966456 time=1555431812 user_id=41035]
What are the odds that all the virtue-signalling internet forum posters so disgusted by the charitable giving choices of the wealthy elites have themselves donated fuck-all to the "homeless starving kids" of the world? [/quote]
I'd guess that the odds might be in your favour.
But shall we take a closer look at these fine chaps and their donations?
As we all know, [i]Cheeearidee[/i] is such a good tax break:
[b]Billionaire François-Henri Pinault,[/b] chairman and CEO of the Kering group that owns the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent fashion brands, who pledged €100m.
[i]However, as sources have pointed out on Twitter, the Pinault family is apparently seeking a huge tax break (90 percent!) to off-set their donation to help rebuild the famous cathedral.[/i]
https://www.fatherly.com/news/billionaire-dad-francois-henri-pinault-save-notre-dame/
Let’s move on to:
[b]Bernard Arnault's family and their company[/b] LVMH, a business empire which includes Louis Vuitton and Sephora, who pledged €200m.
This fat cat was actually granted a huge tax concession by the so-called moderate, Macron!
[i]Macron, despised by workers in France as the “president of the rich,” subordinates every question to the financial aristocracy’s drive for self-enrichment. His tax cuts for the rich allowed billionaire Bernard Arnault to increase his personal wealth by over €22 billion last year alone.[/i]
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/17/pers-a17.html
Who’s next? Ah, yes:[b] French cosmetics giant L'Oreal and its founding Bettencourt family[/b] promised to give €200m.
This birch (Mrs Bettencourt) was almost a byword for corruption. She died in 2017, but the family tradition has ever been thus:
[i]In 2010, the family soap opera also exploded into a government scandal after tape recordings secretly made by the dowager’s butler, and accusations by a former family accountant, suggested that Mrs. Bettencourt had kept $98 million in secret Swiss bank accounts, evaded taxes, given envelopes of cash to cabinet ministers and made illegal campaign contributions to Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before his election to the French presidency in 2007.[/i]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/world/europe/liliane-bettencourt-dead-loreal.html
And there’s Total: [b]while oil giant Total pledged €100m.[/b]
Embroiled in scandals, especially after that ‘wonderful-for-business’ Iraq War, 2003:
[i]The court case has exposed the link between the top levels of the French state and a shadowy network of middlemen, outright crooks and corrupt businessmen. Elf former Chief Executive Loik Le Floch-Prigent has been accused of using company money to pay his divorce settlement, with the permission of the late French President Francois Mitterrand.[/i]
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/07/tota-j11.html
Great citizens, huh?