American billionaire promises to donate half of the 40 property
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (Xinhua Wang Fengfeng) from the U.S. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett co-sponsored the "donor commitment" Action 4 announced, has 40 billionaire or family commitments, will own more than half of his money to charity.
under the "donor commitment" published a list of 40 billionaires, which is mainly self-made tycoon. In addition to Gates and Buffett, but also including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chinese bio-pharmaceutical tycoon Chen Songxiong couples "Star Wars" series of film director George Lucas and so on. In addition, the Rockefeller family patriarch David Rockefeller, the Hilton family and other large family heir Barron Hilton, and the CNN founder Ted Turner also appears in the list.
"donor commitment" action in mid-June. According to the information provided on its website, the campaign is to invite the United States the wealthiest individuals or families involved, the participants pledged to donate half of the property to charity, donation could before his death in participants completed and it could wait until the implementation behind them again. This has no legal effect, but it is a "moral commitment."
calculated according to Gates and Buffett, "Forbes" magazine listed the 400 richest American under the name of the property total about 1.2 trillion dollars, if we donate half of the total proceeds are expected to reach 600 billion U.S. dollars. Buffett said that while "donor commitment" action is just beginning, but they have received many responses.
