Rob Hale Commencement Speech at UMass Dartmouth 5-16-2024 

There better have been a third envelope with $500 in there because that's what the taxes will be that they owe on the gift they received.

Congratulations to the students. After all that work, it's nice to get a gesture recognizance.

Gives them 1k but they can’t keep it they have to donate half , why not just give them 500🤔 regardless it write off for him🤡 id keep it and donate to myself

Let's see, this man is worth 5.4 billion dollars. He gives 1k to 1200 students is 120,000. 120,000 of 5.4 billion is 0.0022% of his money, dare we say, "drop in the bucket". Now typical wage earner that is paying for college is we will say 80k (generous, IMHO), to obtain a 1k is like 1.25% of their yearly income. If those folks were to give the same percentage gift out from what they make a year as a student to be like the giving billionaire of 0.0022% of his income. It would be 1.76. I say the students only have to give out 1.76 and not 500 of the thousand he gave to them. They should not have to be any more generous than he was. I find it funny for a billionaire who owns companies that fight against the minium wage to speak of giving to be very hypocritical.