Bill Gates Could Have Paid the Whole Cost of Prop. 71

Bill Gates gave $400,000 to fund the campaign for Proposition 71. In other words, he was willing to pay chump change—for him—to help persuade the people of California—already tens of billions in debt—to dig even deeper into our empty pockets to chase after the rainbow of therapeutic cloning research.

This story says he’s worth over $50 billion. Well, good for him. But if he thinks cloning is so darned important, he can afford to pay for it—all of it—himself.

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