童大焕：美国富豪将了中国富豪一军
微软创办人盖茨与股神巴菲特，6月16日广邀美国亿万富豪慷慨解囊，捐出一半财富，从事慈善公益事业。命名为“赠与誓言”的劝募善款活动，初期将以列名《福布斯》杂志的美国四百大富豪为主，未来将扩展到世界各地。 巴菲特撰文表示，2006年承诺把财产99%捐作公益的决定，令他无比快乐。响应“赠与誓言”的美国巨富们同时引用了石油大王卡内基的名言：“带着巨富而死，是一种耻辱。”
在这里，美国富豪将了中国富豪一军！不久前，“2010胡润富豪消费价格指数”显示目前中国已有 87.5万个千万富豪、5.5万个亿万富豪。而多个可靠信息源的信息均显示，当今中国的贫富两极分化已经远远超过国际公认的警戒线。
在此“中华民族的危难关头”，来自《经济观察报》的报道说，中国内地富人移民海外的趋势比较明显。
探究内地富人海外移民的主因，排在第一、二位的分别是子女教育和寻找安全感。子女教育的原因属于正常原因，而“寻找安全感”则不能不令人反思国内的社会环境。一是国内投资环境历来不怎么好，近年来“国进民退”以及金融危机使民营企业经营环境更加恶化，你想投的他不让，他让投的不挣钱；各种税费太高。二是贫富差距拉大，导致中国社会对财富“原罪”的追问以及不时引发的“仇富”心态也让富人们如坐针毡。一旦社会矛盾激化，他们中的一部分人就会成为权力的祭品和替罪羊，成为权力打击和清算的对象。
因此，及时地“见好就收”甚至逃亡国外就成了他们不得不做的生存方式和选择。
但是，如果说美国富豪们的行善是一种积极作为的话，那么，中国富人的移民海外就是一种消极作为。毫无疑问，前者更有利于社会进步与和谐，也更有利于富豪们的生活安定与家庭幸福。
中国富豪们即使举家移民国外，也不可能将亲戚朋友等种种社会关系移民国外；他们中的绝大多数人，即使举家移民，也是“生活在海外，工作和事业在内地”，内地仍然是他们的赚钱发财基地。因此，即使他们移民海外的物质生活衣食无忧，家庭生活、精神和文化生活也必将大打折扣。
而如果富豪们能够像美国富豪一样，不是“哪里有自由有安全，哪里就是我的祖国”，而是“这里是我的祖国和故乡，因此我要使它变得自由而又安全”，不是被动移民，而是主动改造我们的社会、文化和制度环境，我们的国家才会变得越来越美好。
中国内地已经有5.5万个亿万富豪，其中百富榜门槛在10亿元以上。富豪达到亿元级，他们的财富就已经一辈子用不完。那么，如果也像美国富豪一样捐出一半用于各种社会慈善和公益事业，就是一个庞大的数字，超过我国预算内财政收入的三分之一。这部分财富可以用于穷人的生活救济、用于办慈善教育和医疗机构，让更多的穷人有出头之日；同时还可以资助独立的研究机构和独立学者，促进社会公平和制度进步。
财富也是一种巨大的社会权力。如果说在成为亿万富豪之前，赚钱是一种学问的话，那么在成为亿万富豪之后，花钱就是一门更高深、更崇高的学问，这门学问有待于中国的富豪们认真学习。
In the states, the gap between the wealthy and what’s left of the middle class has become enormous, in no small part due to the large number of American industries that have moved offshore, which was facilitated by our government dropping, almost entirely, the tariffs that we have had in place since America’s inception.
American’s are thus being placed in direct competition with other workers in the world, to see who will work for the least amount of money…and unlike their overseas counterparts, Americans have no public services to help them survive, no government health insurance or health-care option, no old-age retirement funds (with the exception of Social Security, which is only supplemental & is only funded by the working poor & middle-class, as the wealthy are not subjected to it’s taxes).
You say the wealthy here feel “safe”…that is a concept that will not last much longer, I’m afraid, as more and more people become jobless, under-employed, and desperate.
And we are a very well-armed country…if there were an insurrection here involving a good percentage of the citizenry, the police would be immediately overwhelmed, and the military would not be enough to save the wealthy, or their government lap-dogs either…besides, most of our military is overseas right now, and many of them would side with the people, anyway.
How have things degraded this far?…the very thing you mention in your article…Reaganomics has allowed an enormous gap to occur between the wealthy and the poor & middle-class. Most of the GDP of the nation is being hoarded by a small percentage of the population, less than 20% of the citizens own 90% of all there is available to own in the U.S., and they have taken control of our government by simply buying it out. No doubt you’ve seen the wealthy start manipulating your government in China, in the same manner…it seems to follow a pattern.
This can’t end well.