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The Way We Live Now

The Charitable-Giving Divide

By JUDITH WARNER

Published: August 20, 2010

With the battle over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy shaping up as the major political event of the fall, opponents of repeal were handed a bounteous gift this summer when Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and 38 others announced that they formed a pact to give at least half their wealth to charity. After all, what better illustration could there be of the great social good that wealthy people can do when the government lets them keep their hard-earned dollars to spend as they please?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-wwln-t.html?_r=1