Similarly, while charitable donations by billionaires certainly should be welcomed, companies should also be made to pay a reasonable amount of taxes. After all, as the BEC’s manifesto points out, “current governmental funding levels for clean energy are simply insufficient to meet the challenges before us.”
类似地，尽管亿万富翁的慈善捐赠当然应该受到欢迎，但公司也应该支付合理数量的税收。毕竟，如BEC宣言所指出的，“当前政府对清洁能源的拨款水平根本不足以面对我们所面临的挑战。”而在（比如）英国，2014年Facebook纳税额仅为4,327英镑，远远低于许多个人纳税者。