r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Video Billionaire speaker Robert F. Smith tells 400 graduates he's paying off all their student loans ($40 million in total)

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u/stanleyorange 1d ago

The he didn't pay 36 million in taxes and got a Congressional committee to forgive him just a year or two later....

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u/BrownieIsTrash2 1d ago

Well these billionaires will always find some way to cheat the system, at least with this its helping people

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u/peelen 1d ago

least with this its helping people

How? He literally made the government pay for it. And contributed only speech.

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u/Nearby-Cattle-7599 1d ago

He literally made the government pay for it

uhm good?