SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK PROJECTS IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE As part of its commitment to bringing peace and stability to South Eastern Europe, the Soros foundations network supports a wide range of projects. The following is a partial listing of some of the projects either ongoing or scheduled for fall 2000 that cover all or a number of Stability Pact countries. For a comprehensive listing of current and proposed projects and donor participation information, go to www.osi.hu/sppp/index.html. Some of the projects listed below are supported through OSI network programs, while others are supported by national foundations in the region. Each project description has brief information about the project's objectives, the network program or foundation that supports it, and contact information for more details about the project. http://www.soros.org/osn/winter2000/programs.html
Great so you admit he's a socialist. Only one problem now. He should be paying 70% of his income to taxes like they do in France and most other socialist countries. But wait he doesn't do that. In fact I think it would be very interesting to see what this socialist pays in taxes. My guess in % terms its less then a 3rd grade schoolteacher. So I guess our friend Mr. Soros is a socialist and a hypocrite. Listen I have nothing wrong with him being a socialist. But if you are don't preach socialism and live like a capitalist. Live in a socialist country and pay your taxes to your all loving government. If it's so wonderful over there then why doesn't he live there. I think you know the answer.
If it is true that he pulls all his taxable money offshore in a questionable manner, he should not be able to donate to political causes. Only Americans in good tax standing should be able to legally bribe our politicians.
Many hedge funds are off shore entities. Your characterization of Soros' politics is completely false, probably deliberately so.
Thanks dgabriel, I am aware that most hedge funds are offshore. My point is that he has attained a large portion of his wealth through tax avoidance. He has admitted this himself. In fact he once said that if he had to pay regular income taxes from the time he start trading he would not have made even 10% of what he has now. You see this is my point. I don't have anything wrong with people who use tax shelters or who shield their income through LLC's or offshore entities. What I do have a problem with is when those same people say that thre rest of us should pay 50% to 70% our income to gov't to have this so called "great society" while the George Soros of the world pay next to nothing and amass huge fortunes. He is hypocrite pure and simple. Then he takes it even a step further and attacks our government and our way of life. Yet it's our government and way of life that has afforded him the lifestyle he has. Our exchanges, our regulations, our consumers, our speculators and to top it all of he gets to live in NY where our military makes sure he has a safe bed to sleep in every night. I am not arguing politics here, what I am arguing is when one person says one thing and does something entirely different. This is not about the right or the left, or whether you like Bush or not or whether you support the war. You cannot be a socialist and a capitalist at the same time. They are on the opposite ends of the spectrum.
George Soros Biographical Information International philanthropist George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. He emigrated to England in 1947 and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1952. In 1956, he moved to the United States. Mr. Soros founded the Open Society Fund in 1979, the Soros Foundation-Hungary in 1984 and the Soros Foundation-Soviet Union in 1987. He now has a network of foundations operating in 24 countries throughout Central and Eastern Europe, as well as South Africa and the United States. These foundations are helping to build the infrastructure and institutions of an open society through the support of a variety of educational, cultural and economic restructuring activities. Mr. Soros is also the founder of The Central European University in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw. Established in 1990, the University offers postgraduate programs in history, economics, political science, art history, and the social sciences, and serves as the centerpiece of Mr. Soros' educational initiatives in Eastern Europe. Mr. Soros is President of Soros Fund Management and Chief Investment Advisor to Quantum Fund N.V., a $12 billion international investment fund which is generally recognized as having had the best performance record in the world during its 25-year history. In addition to many articles on the political and economic changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Mr. Soros is the author of The Alchemy of Finance, published by Simon & Schuster in 1987 and republished in May 1994 by John Wiley and Sons, Opening the Soviet System, published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in July 1990, and Underwriting Democracy , published by The Free Press in September 1991. Mr. Soros' forthcoming book, Ideas and Actions, will be published by Wiley and Sons in July 1995. Mr. Soros received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School for Social Research (New York) and the University of Oxford in 1980, as well as from the Budapest University of Economics and Yale University in 1991. February 1995 "The Capitalist Threat" by George Soros http://beginnersinvest.about.com/gi...ttp://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/soros.htm