This morning, Mark Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook wall* that he and his wife are "donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola."** The post has been liked well over a hundred thousand times as I write this. Zuckerberg's announcement was mostly met with the kind of brain-dead positivity you find on Facebook—lots of comments like "God bless you" and "what a great thing you're doing" that make you wonder why the person even bothered to comment in the first place.

One commenter had a slightly less positive question for Zuckerberg: "The U.S. has a GDP of $17 trillion. Why should YOU have to put in $25MM???" Zuckerberg responded first with a platitude: "I think we have a responsibility to help out wherever we see a need." And then he expanded his answer in the next paragraph, saying that "most people — including government leaders — don't realize we're at such a critical turning point" with Ebola. Zuckerberg continued, "if we don't get this under control soon, then it will spread and become an epidemic we have to deal with for decades to come."

This is obviously a major gift, and it comes at a very important time in the fight against Ebola. But the problem is that Zuckerberg, who is worth 33.3 billion dollars, should already have given money to the fight against Ebola, in the form of taxes. He and all the other major players in Silicon Valley have dodged taxes for years. Facebook reportedly didn't have to pay taxes for 2013, and it "flipped" over 700 million dollars to the Cayman Islands in a dodgy corporate tax scam known as the "Double Irish." That particular corporate tax loophole just closed, but there are many others out there, and Facebook will undoubtedly use those loopholes to avoid paying its fair share. It's a real shame that Zuckerberg is a lousy American—a tax dodger, an irresponsible citizen—and yet he still gets to swan in and soak up the glory by "donating" this money. That money—and a whole lot more besides—should already be paying to fix the real problem: the irreparable damage to our public health infrastructure caused by Republican tax cuts and the corporations that cheer Republicans on. You know, corporations like Facebook.

* Do you really think Mark Zuckerberg actually uses his Facebook page for anything besides corporate upkeep anymore? Like, that he uses Facebook to keep in touch with his friends? Doesn't the idea of Zuckerberg actually using Facebook strike you as kind of hilarious?

** Just after I published this post, I read that Zuckerberg also just bought 700 acres of a Hawaiian island for $100 million. Kind of puts that Ebola donation into perspective, doesn't it?