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Chris Remington@beehaw.org to U.S. News@beehaw.org · 6 days ago

MacKenzie Scott gave Meals on Wheels America $70 million as elderly people face 4-month wait list for food. In 2025 alone she donated $7.2 billion to charity, with no strings attached.

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MacKenzie Scott gave Meals on Wheels America $70 million as elderly people face 4-month wait list for food. In 2025 alone she donated $7.2 billion to charity, with no strings attached.

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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated again—a week after gifting millions to a college, she's just given $70 million to Meals on Wheels America | Fortune
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MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.
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    Imagine if we didn’t have the inefficiency of having to wait for people with far too much to do this sort of thing.

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      https://www.rsn.org/001/bernie-sanders-proposes-taxing-income-over-1-billion-at-100-and-urges-its-time-to-make-greedy-billionaires-pay-their-fair-share.html

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      yeah I sorta do get annoyed with charity for things that should be handled as a matter of course. we should collect taxes and have these programs run by the state.

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        Why would we help older people when we can overpay for another fighter jet to replace the ones that got shot down in a war nobody wanted? Seriously, think of all the children we can bomb with the tax money you think should be spent on feeding the weak.

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      But, but… think of all of the John D. Rockefeller’s!

      pads eyes with yachts that require historical bridges be remove

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