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Tim Schwab: Bill Gates has become a de facto public health advocate. People are looking for authority; Bill Gates seems happy to play that role, even though he& #39;s not a doctor. It& #39;s the type of role billionaires play in policy debates.
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Rick: Here& #39;s an article Tim Schwab wrote about Bill Gates:
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/">https://www.thenation.com/article/s...
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/">https://www.thenation.com/article/s...
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Tim Schwab: Bill Gates is still young & has a lot of life to live; he may decide to get into politics.
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Tim Schwab: Journalists are great at shouting about a $10 million donation but they& #39;re less adept at looking back over previous years to see what good has come of it.
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Tim Schwab: $250 million went to news media outlets from the Gates Foundation, incl. top tier news media. We need to include these news media biases.
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Tim Schwab: It& #39;s easy for a lot of us to vilify the Koch Bros. b/c the way they use philanthropy seems so egregious while the Gates Foundation seems more apolitical. I worry people naively see the Gates Foun. as apolitical, w/ no agenda.
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Tim Schwab: In fact, the Gates Foundation does have an agenda, it does try to bend the world to its whims.
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Tim Schwab: Something like $0.40 or $0.50 of every dollar Bill Gates gives away is actually your money or mine because otherwise he& #39;d have to pay taxes on it. Why isn& #39;t there more control over how that money is spent if it& #39;s otherwise taxpayer money?
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Rick: I believe that if you want to give money away, do it, but we as taxpayers shouldn& #39;t have to subsidize it.
Tim Schwab: There are advocacy groups springing up to protect philanthropy.
Rick: You have to wonder where these groups pop up from and who funds them.
Tim: From Koch Bros & Bill Gates.
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Rick: You have to wonder where these groups pop up from and who funds them.
Tim: From Koch Bros & Bill Gates.
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