Quote Originally Posted by redfox View Post
That income figure is 89 million, BTW.
Guessing your figure of $89M was Mr. Buffett's INCOME last year. Your previous thread gave Mr. Dees SALARY of $809 which is why I responded with Mr. Buffett's SALARY. Shoot, even I have a salary which makes up only a portion of my income. We just need to be comparing apples to apples here.

Warren Buffett posts his personal tax returns every year. Morris Dees, as far as I have found, does not. As the head of an organization that brings in tens of millions of dollars per year I would argue that Mr. Dees is absolutely entitled to a salary and benefits commensurate with someone in the same position at a for profit company. I do not know how much Mr. Dees makes (aka, his INCOME) in a year. I do not know who pays his health insurance premiums or what kind of house he lives in or what kind of car he drives. If we are to believe his income is truly limited to $809 then Mr. Dees is going to have a hard time making it in a box under a bridge. He doesn't appear to be struggling that hard. He was keynote speaker at an event in my area last year (I did not attend). Tickets for the luncheon were $140 and up. Mr. Dees, along with his entourage, arrived by private jet and was taken to and from the event at the s****iest hotel in the area in a limo. I don't think for a minute that Mr. Dees paid for all of that out of his own pocket. I would guess the plane ride and some of the other perks were "donations". Heck, just the fee to LAND his plane here was more than his $809 annual salary.


Quote Originally Posted by loosechickens View Post
Just for the record, Gregg: from Wikipedia:

"The Southern Poverty Law Center has won many notable civil resulting in monetary awards for the plaintiffs. The SPLC has said it does not accept any portion of monetary judgments.[24][25][26]"
You guys are reading me wrong or I'm saying it wrong. I am NOT criticizing Mr. Dees or the SPLC. I think they do a lot of good work and I'm glad someone is there to take on these hate groups. The SPLC has a very strong record and Mr. Dees is a very charismatic leader. All I'm saying is lets call a spade a spade. It is incredibly naive to cling to a belief that the SPLC is strictly an altruistic cause. I would not expect the lawyers there, including Morris Dees, to work for "peanuts". There are plenty of perfectly legal ways to support high income lifestyles using a non-profit corporate structure. What's disingenuous to me is the tendency by some to criticize the CEO lifestyle in one thread and then ignore the exact same perks granted to the leader of what is seen (by some) as a charitable organization in another thread. The CO2 being emitted by Mr. Dees jet is the same greenhouse gas emitted from any other CEO's jet.