Posted on 02/20/2018 12:10:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates says he should pay more in taxes and that the government should require other superwealthy people like him to contribute "significantly higher" amounts.
"I need to pay higher taxes," Gates, who is worth over $90 billion, said in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday.
"I've paid more taxes, over $10 billion, than anyone else, but the government should require the people in my position to pay significantly higher taxes," he said.
Gates, the second richest man in the world after Amazon's Jeff Bezos, didn't mince his words when it came to the GOP tax law, which cut taxes for corporations.
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Well, what’s stoppin’ ya?
Who’s stopping him? Send in as many checks as you want Bill.
He’s a real socialist.
He is free to write a check to the Treasury Department at any time that he chooses. Rather, he would prefer to just run off at the mouth. What a waste of DNA.
Gates made the same comments years ago.
Hell Bill, give it all away.
.....BS...he knows he could donate as much as he wants....
Fine, go ahead. I don’t care. Just don’t make ME pay higher taxes!
Just send it in Big Blue Screen Mouth.
After putting a dozen kids through college, I could certainly use some money, Bill. I’d love to buy some food!
Said as he shelters mega-billions in his TAX EXEMPT foundation.
Idiot...give your own money to causes that benefit all. Cut out the middleman(bureaucrats).
OK, so write a check!!
Then do so Billy. the US Govt is more then willing to take any check you write it.
But that the dirty secret ins’t it? YOU won’t pay higher taxes, you want all of US to have to pay higher taxes.
The tax code has many things in it. Things that all but name the person they are intended for but we never see them because they don’t apply to us.
I suggest that this be implemented for mr gates.
The “tax-me-more” fund. Write them, but quit sticking your snout into other’s business.
That clown pays the legal minimum. He can always pay more of his own free will.
So take the standard deduction.
Nothing in the law prevents Bill Gates from voluntarily paying more in taxes. What’s stopping him?
I’m tired of virtue-signaling from rich liberals. The rest of us prefer to pay fewer taxes.
We live on only so much and the government has an obscene amount of money but the return we get from it isn’t as obvious as it appears to be.
“People who are wealthier tended to get dramatically more benefits than the middle class or those who are poor”
No they don’t. That’s a bold-face lie. The question for Gates is whether he voluntarily pays more taxes than he is required to by the IRS and, if not, why not? After all he believes he should pay more taxes. If he believes thay way then he should set an example.
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