It’s quite reasonable to believe that we ought to tax the rich more and use that money to better fund our public schools. Though I think guaranteeing free college educations to students who perform well might be more effective than anything the school districts could buy with the money.

None of this, however, justifies calling out Bill Gates for being insufficiently generous. I was absolutely flabbergasted to see the SF Bay Gaurdian offering a populist critique of Gates because he only gives 350 million to US schools despite the vast wealth our society has allowed him to accumulate. I mean jesus christ how can this paper avoid gagging on it’s own hypocrisy when it criticizes the rich for not sufficiently helping out the less fortunate because they are giving their money away to aid the truly poor. Even poor american kids are quite wealthy compared to children in much of Africa that Gates is trying to help with his donations.

Sigh, yet more evidence that neither side is motivated by a serious examination of choices and consequences but instead are motivated by simplistic emotional reactions to what they see on the news.