Jon M Huntsman Sr

Jon M Huntsman Sr. shares his ideas on how the wealthy can financially help and start contributing to the country. Huntsman Sr. feels like the wealthy people haven’t really given anything so he feels like the should give 80%. The occupy wall street protesters gather and camp out because of this very reason. These protestors feel as if the wealthy are greedy. Huntsman create the multinational Huntsman corporation which started in the 1970‘s. The Huntsman corporation a chemical base company which holds most of their business overseas. Mr. Huntsman empathizes with the protestors and feels like politics isn’t functioning as it should.
The democrats would like to push for the millionaires to start paying surtax. Mr. Huntsman believes that if the wealthy start to pay more tax that it could be the beginning to start fixing things and to start helping the economy get back on track.
There are many billionaires who are active but they aren’t active in out country. Billionaires such as Bill Gates and Mr. Buffet. The are active around the world fighting to help things like malaria and aids. Mr. Huntsman is focused with issues close to home. For example he is now working very hard on building the most distinguished cancer treatment an research center in Utah. These issues are important to him because he and his family were affected by cancer. Being that his father, mother, and stepmother all dies from cancer and he had a couple battles of skin cancer himself. He has spent most of his life on trying to help and fight these diseases. There are about 1200 billionaires in America and Mr. Huntsman is one of 19 of the wealthiest men to give away more then a billion dollars.
Huntsman has worked with for the presidential candidate Mr. Romney in the past and states that he has worked for three different versions of him. Romney was a liberal when was running to be a senate in Massachusetts, then he was a moderate when he ran for governor in 2002, and now he is a conservative running for president.
Huntsman does his work and donating for results not just for tax deductions as some of the wealthy do. Not only is he trying to help treat these diseases but he’s also wants to make help the way these people think and feel when they step into his research center. He will make decoration touch ups to make them feel as if the weren’t even in a center for cancer.
Interestingly the huntsman center links to Mormon religion because of Utah’s history. And Huntsman was leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The database has already led scientists here to discover genes linked to inherited forms of melanoma breast and colon cancer, as well as ovarian cancer and some head and neck cancers that appear to have hereditary patterns.”