Bill Gates on a wealth tax:
"I've paid over $10 billion in taxes. I've paid more than anyone in taxes. If I had to pay $20 billion, it's fine."
"But when you say I should pay $100 billion, then I'm starting to do a little math over what I have left over."
"I've paid over $10 billion in taxes. I've paid more than anyone in taxes. If I had to pay $20 billion, it's fine."
"But when you say I should pay $100 billion, then I'm starting to do a little math over what I have left over."
Gates on whether he'd meet with Elizabeth Warren:
"I'm not sure how open minded she is -- or that she'd even be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money."
"I'm not sure how open minded she is -- or that she'd even be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money."
Gates is asked who he'd vote for in a Trump vs. Warren election. He doesn't directly say.
He says he'd vote for whoever has the "more professional approach" to the presidency, even if he disagrees with them.
"I hope the more professional candidate is an electable candidate."
He says he'd vote for whoever has the "more professional approach" to the presidency, even if he disagrees with them.
"I hope the more professional candidate is an electable candidate."
Bill Gates says he's open to taxing philanthropic gifts to private foundations.
Bill Gates, should we abolish billionaires?
"Maybe I'm just too biased to think that if you create a company that's super valuable, that at least some part of that you should be able to have -- a little bit for consumption, and the balance to do philanthropic things."
"Maybe I'm just too biased to think that if you create a company that's super valuable, that at least some part of that you should be able to have -- a little bit for consumption, and the balance to do philanthropic things."
Bill Gates on why he doesn't spend his billions on U.S. elections:
"I choose not to participate in large political donations. There are times it might feel tempting to do so. And there are other people who choose to do so. But I just don't want to grab that gigantic mega-phone."
"I choose not to participate in large political donations. There are times it might feel tempting to do so. And there are other people who choose to do so. But I just don't want to grab that gigantic mega-phone."
Bill Gates on his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein:
"I made a mistake in judgment that I thought that those discussions would lead, literally, to billions of dollars to global health."
"And I gave him some benefit by the association. So I made a doubly wrong mistake there."
"I made a mistake in judgment that I thought that those discussions would lead, literally, to billions of dollars to global health."
"And I gave him some benefit by the association. So I made a doubly wrong mistake there."
Gates says it's "tricky" to recruit billionaires to sign The Giving Pledge -- especially so overseas -- because need to vet them.
"I feel bad: We probably will at some point accept someone into the Giving Pledge and it will turn out that their fortune is a disreputable fortune."
"I feel bad: We probably will at some point accept someone into the Giving Pledge and it will turn out that their fortune is a disreputable fortune."
Bill Gates says "targeting should not be allowed" on political ads.
But he also says that corporations should not be fact-checking political ads.
"No private company can or should make those judgments."
But he also says that corporations should not be fact-checking political ads.
"No private company can or should make those judgments."
Bill Gates says he's working on a book about climate change due out next summer.
Sorkin: "Do you have any interest in space?"
Bill Gates: "No."
Sorkin: "Your neigbor in Seattle likes space."
Gates: "He can have it."
Billionaires joking who can "have" space.
Bill Gates: "No."
Sorkin: "Your neigbor in Seattle likes space."
Gates: "He can have it."
Billionaires joking who can "have" space.
Gates is joking here, he says. Worth nothing that he is far more willing than most billionaires to say the pay should pay more taxes.
He's for a higher estate tax and says more tax revenue needed.
But he calls for a "middle ground" and says he worries about ~~too~~ high taxes.
He's for a higher estate tax and says more tax revenue needed.
But he calls for a "middle ground" and says he worries about ~~too~~ high taxes.
Bill Gates:
"You really want the incentive system to be there, and you can go a long ways without threatening that."
"You really want the incentive system to be there, and you can go a long ways without threatening that."
Here’s Bill Gates on:
— Meeting with Elizabeth Warren
— Meeting with Jeffrey Epstein
— Taxing billionaire philanthropy
— Wealth taxes
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— Meeting with Elizabeth Warren
— Meeting with Jeffrey Epstein
— Taxing billionaire philanthropy
— Wealth taxes
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I found Bill Gates' connection between Jeffrey Epstein and future billionaires that he could legitimize to be very...strange?
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Why is it harder for Bill Gates to assess the corruption of billionaires who make their money overseas than it is of those who make their money in the USA?
And who is to say that some of the current, American singers of the Giving Pledge aren’t corrupt?
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And who is to say that some of the current, American singers of the Giving Pledge aren’t corrupt?
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Those on the left dunking on Gates are not choosing the “worst” target for their ire.
Gates supports:
— Reinstating the higher estate tax
— Taxing capital at the same rate as labor
— Major philanthropic giving today from billionaires
Many billionaires support none of these.
Gates supports:
— Reinstating the higher estate tax
— Taxing capital at the same rate as labor
— Major philanthropic giving today from billionaires
Many billionaires support none of these.
Read @dylanmatt on this very point!
Easy to bash Gates since he is the billionaire you know, but it is mostly an anonymous group of billionaires that are more responsible for income inequality.
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Easy to bash Gates since he is the billionaire you know, but it is mostly an anonymous group of billionaires that are more responsible for income inequality.
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“It seems dramatically less productive to shout at a billionaire who is openly calling for higher estate taxes & capital gains taxes to shrink his own fortune than to target the bulk of billionaires w/ much more self-interested political projects in mind”
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