After leaving Old George, Kim Hyun-tae and his group returned to the banquet hall. ⊙

At this time, the "public charitable donations" are in full swing in the banquet hall.

"I donate $20,000 to support the welfare fund for the police officers' family, and hope that police officers can better serve the Los Angeles area and no longer have to worry about their families."

"I donate $60,000 to the Los Angeles Fire Department fund!"

"I donate $40,000 to the Los Angeles Department of Education Fund!"

This is OK?

Kim Hyun-tae looked at the guests and shouted out the numbers he wanted to donate from time to time and the corresponding objects they donated, which felt a little incredible.

Fresh!

This matter is so new!

Public charitable donations like this include funds established by public departments such as police stations, fire protection, education, etc.

Logically speaking, shouldn’t such a department be supported by national financial appropriations? Even the foundations under each department cannot do this.

how!

I have to come out to raise funds now!?

It's really weird.

As Kim Hyun-tae, who doesn't know much about the United States in parallel time and space, he really cannot accept what is happening in front of him.

It is reasonable to exist, even if he cannot accept it for a while.

This is different from China. If it is in China, then such a public sector does require national funding support, and it is a special funding.

Even funds are manipulated by the state.

But it is different in the United States. Although the federal government will also allocate funds to each state to support the development of public utilities, the little money allocated by the federal government is simply not enough.

At most, it means maintaining the operation of these departments.

As for benefits, don't think about it.

Therefore, the civil servants in the United States are actually very hard-working and far less happy than those in Chinese civil servants.

In this way, in order to have some legal welfare benefits, civil servants in the United States came up with a solution.

That is to set up a fund to find someone to provide 'charitable donations for public utilities'!

Yes, you read that right, that's what it means.

In addition, such donations are mostly used to repair old facilities and renew and buy new equipment, and will not be cashed out to civil servants in these departments.

At most, at most, when you buy a house and start a family or have practical difficulties, you can borrow from the foundation at a low interest rate without having to borrow from the bank.

At the same time, this donation will be supervised specifically.

If you want to embezzle or something, don't even think about it.

This can also be regarded as a way to reduce federal fiscal pressure and local self-reliance, and can also be regarded as a "welfare".

Even though it is only this, it is a very good thing for American civil servants, and they are not picky at all.

Pitiful!

It's so pitiful!

After the puzzled Kim Hyun-tae learned the truth from Dave, he expressed deep sympathy for the American civil servant group.

Of course, these are all superficial articles.

In fact, there are real benefits to the guests being so enthusiastic.

If you support the police station, then correspondingly, the police station will be very happy to do things for you when something happens.

If you support the Fire Department, you will also receive preferential treatment. After all, if you do business, the Fire Department will not dare to offend it.

If you support education, it will be much more convenient for your own children to transfer to school.

Although there is no such thing as going to the back door in the United States, they will adapt.

You should know that these donations can buy new body armor for the police station. Is this a good thing to ensure the personal safety of police officers?

yes!

Then you have to be grateful to the donor. Some things that are not big or small will go away. Turn a blind eye to it.

There is nothing wrong with being straight for Americans.

But it doesn't mean that they don't know how to talk about human nature.

Under the framework of irrelevant pain and not breaking the law, they will also pay attention to human relations.

Instead of like in China, everything is focused on human relationships.

At this point, Kim Hyun-tae understood the inside story and lamented that he was really a novice.

Since that's the case, do you have to donate some of them?

This is a good opportunity to establish relations with the police station and other public utilities.

Besides, I still have some spare money.

There is still more than 70 million in the bank account, and this month is about to end the month. When the royalties for December are settled, I will make a payment again.

Although he now needs a lot of money to support three companies, Kim Hyun-tae is very clear that some money should be spent, such as 'supporting public charity'.

"Mr. Dave, do you have any blank checks there?"

Thinking of this, Kim Hyun-tae pulled Dave's cuff beside him and asked in a low voice.

Dave noticed Kim Hyun Tae pulling him, looked down at him: "What's wrong? I'm carrying a checkbook."

"I want to donate some money to me, but now I don't have a checkbook, so I can only ask you to borrow it here first, and I will transfer the money to you after I go back."

"How much do you plan to donate?"

Seeing that Kim Hyun-tae was going to donate, Dave did not stop him. After all, this was Kim Hyun-tae's personal matter.

As for borrowing money, Dave won’t worry that Kim Hyun-tae can’t afford it. You have to know that the royalty sharing for December will be settled.

Dave, who knows the sales data this month, doesn’t worry about Kim Hyun-tae not being able to pay it back at all.

What's more, he knew very well that Kim Hyun-tae still had tens of millions of cash deposits in his bank account.

Therefore, Kim Hyun-tae wants to borrow money, why doesn’t he borrow it?

Besides, Kim Hyun-tae borrowed money instead of going out to spend money, looking for girls or taking drugs, but donating money to public charity.

This is a good thing, so why don’t I support it?

Besides, Kim Hyun-tae is a relatively famous young writer. Now he wants to establish good relations with these public utilities, which will also be of great benefit to his future personal image. In addition, his image will be improved and will also lead to novel sales.

Dave is not a fool, he thought of so many things at once.

At the same time, Dave secretly glanced at Annie, who was standing behind Kim Hyun-tae, holding Koko in her left hand and pushing the wheelchair with her right hand. She looked as if she was very supportive and admired Kim Hyun-tae's idea.

Since Anne doesn't seem to be against it, why should she object? He is not an idiot.

"How much do you plan to donate? It seems that the only ones who raised funds today are from the police station, firefighting, and education departments."

Dave took out his checkbook from the inside pocket of the suit and asked at Kim Hyun-tae.

In the face of Dave's inquiry, Kim Hyun-tae thought about it carefully.

My own campaign donation to George Old is $100.

So, now donating money to public charity will not exceed this number.

Otherwise, what do you think of Old George?

But it won’t be too small, at least it will leave a deep impression on people.

God knows whether he will deal with these departments in the future, at least leave some impressions. Once he deals with these departments in the future, it will be a bit convenient, right?

Kim Hyun-tae measured the gains and losses with the mentality of a petty citizen, and finally came up with a decision. He looked up at Dave: "Three departments, each department has $500,000, and I think they should be satisfied with this number."

After thinking about it, Kim Hyun-tae decided to donate $500,000 to the police station, fire and education departments, each of which.

If it weren't for the old George, Kim Hyun-tae would have liked to donate 1 million.

Dave's lips twitched as soon as he heard this.

Donating $500,000, and still worried that these guys are not satisfied?

joke!

Such donations are already a lot, okay?

Dave was really amused by Kim Hyun-tae's self-deprecatingness.

Fortunately, there was no need for Dave to say anything, Annie had already given him some tips to Kim Hyun-tae for him.

"Don't worry, 500,000 is already a lot. Charity donations like this are usually 100,000 yuan. If you donate 500,000 yuan to them now, it would be strange if they are unhappy."

What, these guys are so confused that they are just 500,000?
To be continued...