George Kaiser's Forbes 400 Profile...

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

1% of your net worth...not your salary.

Oh, then I just gave about 1% of my net worth to El Guapo.

[RecycleMichael]

You drank some of his $45 shots of tequila?

Wow, grizzle...I gotta party with you.

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

quote:Originally posted by Townsend

Their money, their choice.  

If it's a tax break at least it's good for me.  Most of the wealthy person's tax breaks aren't doing dingus for me.  

Yes, dingus.

That is a very good point. I think I sense some resentment because some people think that he is not giving enough or shouldn't follow the tax rules.

I am guessing he is giving more money than any single gift in the history of this town. I also don't know many philanthropists who don't know the tax implications of their giving.

The Kaiser Foundation has many other causes it supports. The bank also has an entire lending arm for supporting needed areas of our community.

We only have one guy this rich in our town and only three billionaires in our whole state. He is keeping that money local and is probably putting up more than the combined annual salaries of the 1,800 TulsaNow members.

Ditto

[Sangria]

Uh, he also has a lot to gain if the tax passes.

He has more to gain than anyone. Once we pay - he and his cronies will decide what to do with the money and how it is spent.

We are not only using county tax income for a city project - but we are allowing a private party to handle it.

Oh, and then the city will hit you with a tax to fix the streets.

You saw the commercials.... they are already fixing the streets to the arena, if Tulsa is so broke, then where else will the street money for Riverside and westside come from?

[FOTD]

Major Bond issue on streets?

Why don't they show us the agenda so we can see the big picture that the one's in control are planning for us.

Dislosure of the street plan might hurt the chances of a river deal passing.....

[carltonplace]

The river and the streets are seperate issues. Everyone opposed to the proposed river development is suddenly so emotional about the state of the streets (I agree we need to fix our streets) but where were they before this proposal was put forward? There was no big stink about streets, no talk about adding a 4th Penney city sales tax or fuel tax to fix them. The vote no contigent acts like it's one or the other, river or streets but I bet if the city asked the voters for funding we'd hear a huge outcry to do some other thing first.

Guess where the biggest back log of street needs is? It's not in South Tulsa folks. Its in Midtown, Downtown, West Tulsa and parts of North and East Tulsa; The oldest areas. Harvard, Yale, Peoria, Lewis, Denver, Riverside and in the old residential areas. The largest group of Vote No people are suburbanites and South Tulsa folks that don't even use these streets. The street people also think that the city has some control over the highway system. Get a grip.

I know this post doesn't belong on a discussion about Mr Kaiser, but ^ started it.

[shadows]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

I want to sell off some body parts, but I found out that I am prohibited from listing them on E-Bay.

Then I tried to donate them to science, but they were not interested either.

I guess I will have to donate them to science fiction.

E-Bay has some very intelligent people that can tell when parts are usable.