And if an average person gives $1000 to charity, and they take it off their taxes, they’re doing the exact same thing. They’ve thwarted the governments claims on that money in order to decide on their own how that money should be spent.

The tax implications is the ENTIRE POINT. It is something you should be praising, not condemning because it allows them to give away more money.

Exactly.

Every billionaire and major business (nearly every small business too) relies on government services to exist as they do. Education, water, roads, sanitation, security, currency, and enforcing regulations to maintain a specific standard of material/business/contract are all essential to our functioning society that…

The family trust is in charge of the 2% voting shares for the for-profit Patagonia.

Reuters:

The gift led to the family’s potential net worth dropping $2.994 billion dollars and funds an environmental non-profit in perpetuity. Who cares about the freaking tax implication?

Congrats on regurgitating right wing bullshit.  He never intended to sell the company, so he was never going to pay a $700M tax bill upon the sale.

This should have just been sold in US. WHY CAN’T WE NICE THING?

Bring back the Lexus IS wagon.  Imagine the glorious 5.0L V8 from the IS500, but in wagon form.

Lexus IS300 Sportcross. Inline six, RWD, compact size. Put a manual in it this time and it would be perfect. 

Mazda Protege 5.

Camry wagon as a plug-in hybrid with AWD.

I started with the Camry wagon and then lamented the lack of a manual... Honda is fine.

And its Toyota Camry counterpart.

Nuff said...

I want a wagon that never was. Volkswagen Golf GTI variant.

Accord Wagon. Manual. Not dead, just missing.