[encody]

I don't really know much about the two people mentioned above, outside of being tech businessmen.

Tax avoidance is different from tax evasion: one refers to not voluntarily donating money to the government, and the other is a crime. The similarity in terms is misleading.

The characterization of the Andreessen quote is 1) inaccurate, as the antecedent in the actual quote is unspecified, and 2) described in the linked article as not being a direct quote.

Eu/acc does not appear to be promoting those two aspects of those two people. All people are multifaceted and flawed. Probably, the website is referencing them because of their apparent success as tech investors/founders.

[themoonisachees]

Taxes are very much not voluntary donations to governments. They are enforced by threat of state-sanctionned violence.

[dagw]

The argument that paying more taxes than you strictly have to is a "voluntary donations". If you can legally (ab)use loopholes in the tax code to pay less taxes and choose not to, that is an active choice you are making to pay more taxes than necessary. Furthermore you could even argue that as a company it's not even 'your' money, but your shareholder's, and as such you have a duty to them to pay as little tax as legally possible.