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Addickforlife said:

Quite hard to have a go at him really Leroy. Yes me may have voted against a new income tax law, and who wouldnt, but lets be honest he clearly pays a bucket load of tax, and his charity donations are staggering.

The following 2 lines are taken from his wiki profile:

A report in February, 2012, named Allen as the most charitable living American in 2011. Allen's donations, totaling $372.6 million, were beat out by only two others, both of them are deceased.
In March 2012 he continued the funding of the Allen Institute for Brain Science with a contribution of $300 million to look at how we see.

Not really. His tax affairs are just as opaque as everyone else's in the 'richer than it's possible to actually imagine' bracket. For every dollar he pays in tax, he gets the same amount back in some form or other. Another example here: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/02/paul-allen-gets-billion-dollar-tax-break-in-stimulus-bill.html

I couldn't give a shit how many millions he's given to chairty - just like every other billionaire 'philanthropist', his charitable donations are for the glorification of his ego, involve funding projects he has a personal interest of involvement in, and are made for tax reasons anyway. If they all just paid a sensible amount of tax, the financial crisis could be eliminated in one fell swoop. I know the taxation system isn't perfect, but it's still better than relying on individuals' idea of what THEY think it's important to fund.