And so I decided to have a progressive scale that increases according to what you earn like the tax scale.
所以,我决定制定一个累进的捐款标准表,捐款的数量随着收入的增加而增加,就像税率表一样,这个标准表从收入的1%起步。
What do you think of donations being used to allow rich students to enter universities?
有一些捐款是用来帮助富裕的学生上大学的,你怎么看待这种现象?
But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.
尽管每个人的捐款不多,如果在美国,每个人都根据这个标准表捐款,那将会是5000亿美元。
Big campaign contributors were invited to stay overnight in the Lincoln bedroom at the White House?
参与的大手笔捐款人都被邀请,在白宫的林肯卧室留宿一晚?
At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.
它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。
Do you think that people who were accepted into university because of their families' donation
你觉得因为家里的捐款而被大学录取的人
But the company generally doesn't give to charity; it doesn't contribute to political campaigns; it shouldn't be, ideally, doing any of those things.
但是公司一般不给慈善机构捐款,也不向政治团体投资,理想的情况就是不掺和这些事
But we ask for suggested donation.
但我们寻求了建议捐款。
Someone figured out at the median contribution that got you invited to stay a night in the Lincoln bedroom, Bill Gates could afford to stay in the Lincoln bedroom every night for the next sixty six thousand years.
有人算出来,按能受邀在林肯卧室留宿一夜,所需捐款额的中位数计算,比尔·盖茨完全付得起在林肯卧室,住上6万6千年。
And also in a very sort of pragmatic sense, in a negative way, it's tax-deductible.
同时,从实用的角度来讲,或是从一个消极的角度,这种捐款是免税的。
Milton Friedman makes this argument- All right, so Bill Gates can give to charity if he wants to.
弥尔顿·弗里德曼提出-,你是说,如果盖茨愿意,可以给慈善机构捐款。
0% That's right. That's the point at which you are getting to the top 10% of the US tax payers.- Yeah And only after that, does the scale increase.
没错,只有美国纳税人的前,才需要捐赠这么多。,-是的,在这之后,捐款率才会增加。
And I suggest a scale that people might use in order to decide how much is enough.
我也建议了一种捐款标准表,来帮助人们决定捐多少钱比较合适。
During the Clinton years, remember there was a controversy donors?
克林顿当政期间,有个竞价捐款记得吧?
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