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“The answer is that simply leaving it up to people to give more than the government asks for is not a scalable solution. People pay taxes as an obligation of law and citizenship, not out of charity. Additional voluntary giving will never raise enough money for everything the government needs to do.”

I thought he was a logical man. Maybe he is, but thinks we’re not. Is he saying that his money has no value to the government if it’s given voluntarily, and not coerced? Can’t be that. Is he saying that his money has no value to the government because it’s not enough? Can’t be that either.

Perhaps he means that he has better uses for his money than the government does, but the rest of us do not.

“Additional voluntary giving will never raise enough money for everything the government needs to do.” - Bill Gates

BUT EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT, Mr Gates, ADDITIONAL (INVOLUNTARY) TAXES will NEVER raise enough money for everything the (demokraps & GOPe) government WANTS to do. So what is the answer Bill? How much are you willing to be taxed?

Gates is beginning to remind me of the late great John D Rockefeller who handed a kid on the street a mere dime to show how charitable he is, how his great wealth hasn’t separated him from humanity. Very sad.

“The answer is that simply leaving it up to people to give more than the government asks for is not a scalable solution. People pay taxes as an obligation of law and citizenship, not out of charity. Additional voluntary giving will never raise enough money for everything the government needs to do.”

I thought he was a logical man. Maybe he is, but thinks we’re not. Is he saying that his money has no value to the government if it’s given voluntarily, and not coerced?

Maybe you and several other people on this thread are reading this differently than I, but what he said makes perfect sense to me. People only pay taxes because they have to. If taxes weren't mandatory, then no one would pay them. The government needs to raise taxes, because it wants to spend more and can't depend on people choosing to pay above and beyond what they already have to. And since it's not a solution since everyone else won't do it, then he's gonna talk a bunch of talk but not going to do it, until the gov makes him. He's still hypocritical about it (especially with how he's set up most of his wealth into non-taxable trusts that escape the taxes he wants to impose), but what he said is true. FedGov has to force people to pay more taxes if it wants more moolah.