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I'm surprised you didn't slyly link to the donation page.

One entity contributing more voluntarily does essentially nothing. All it does is give a free victory to competitors.

At least it would put some money where their mouth is. Are they spending any of their lobbying money on increasing their taxes? Until then it's nothing but hot air pretending to care

Can you elaborate on their point? Can people only speak about things they have funded? What money did you spend to give you the right to make that post?

IMO it is fine to express opinions and advocate positions even without contributing financially. I’m interested in why that’s a problem.

It's objectively not a problem. It just reeks of virtue signaling to me. But I'm not a billionaire so my opinions don't matter much in this country

Reading the letter in full, it is clear that when he says he expects and hopes to pay more taxes, it is because he expects and hopes that profits will increase.

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