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.