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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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FYI, the quote from Bill Gates in numerous articles as opposed to this twitter quote is very different:
“I’ve paid over $10 billion in taxes. I’ve paid more than anyone in taxes,” Gates said. “If I had 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 about what I have leftover. Sorry, I’m just kidding.”
Bill Gates also said had he written the policy, he’d be taxed at 62%. Do your research people.
I think Bill Gates isn’t someone who should be targeted here, the sheer amount of money he’s given away and continues to give away with his philanthropy work doesn’t completely excuse him. But he’s far better than most billionaires, the guy actually has a heart and uses his wealth for good
Bill Gates is a very weird pick for being angry at. Dude is like the only good billionaire who did a lot of things for humanity.
I mean. This is an ad absurdum — going from Bill Gates to empoverished people. Not a clever comeback. Moreover, those $xy billion dollars did pay for the sneakers in the end.
This comment does not help anyone and it only tries to magnify the divide. And at this point, this feels like shooting yourself in the leg.
For a guy that built a company from scratch (and did the actual work while it was taking off unlike others such as Musk) and then decided to give most of it away in his lifetime is a very odd pick for people to pick on.
He has more than paid his share of taxes and doesn’t mind paying (unlike others) and would as he said pay double.
To ask for $100 billion from him is ludicrous – to be honest it would be wasted by the US government unlike the way he is spending it on things that actually effect people!
Katie Porter is a millionaire, talking about clipping coupons or fixing minivans.
Men lie, women lie – numbers don’t.
Expressing a willingness to double his taxes should be appreciated, as most wealthy people don’t want to pay a dime.
Tax the rich! Tax churches! Make it doable, to where they can continue to make money and pay more taxes.
I think people has no clues when they’re talking about billionaires.
Bill Gates wealth is $107B, do you think it’s fair to tax him for $100B?
I don’t like the Uber rich people too, but this seems to much for me.
On the other side Elon’s wealth is $400B (four times that) and his Tesla paid ZERO income taxes for 3 consecutive years.
Now this South African immigrate guy has his dirty hands in the US Treasury, yet the bots are turning you against Gates to distract from the coup.
Bill Gates is the wrong target. There is likely not a single person in the history of humanity that has saved more lives than Bill Gates through his philanthropy. He has given away over 100 billion dollars and saved tens of millions of lives. Name a single other person in all of history that has done anything like that.
Eat the Rich. Bet they are all on Epstein’s logs.
He’d have 7.1 billion, I don’t think people should pay 94% tax but I also think 9.3% tax paid on an overall wealth of 107.1 billion is a fucking joke when people on the breadline pay a way higher percentage of tax. I also don’t think anyone needs that sort of money, it’s obscene.
How many billions could you possibly need? How many millions could you even need?
Having one billion left is still too much
The problem is that he has a $100 billion to begin with, and he isn’t even the main culprit as far as that goes.
I think Rep. Porter missed his point. Bill is arguing to increase taxes on billionaires. He is saying the U.S. could double his taxes and he would hardly notice. Further, Bill is arguing that taxes could be increased 10 times and while it would be noticeable, it would not hurt him. Tax the rich!
Tbh I wouldn’t make this argument about bill gates.
That man could have been worth several times what Musk or Bezos is but he chose to make his OS accessible and also chose to give away a ridiculous amount of money.
He’s kind of the example of a billionaire doing the right thing- the only example lol. His eradications of polio and malaria really prove to me that the rest of the billionaires COULD make the world a utopia if they really wanted to… they just don’t. They’d rather have their legacy be “biggest number” regardless the cost.
These people have far too much money.
If your going to go after Bill who does so much charity work then you 100% have to go after elon and Jeff bozos and all the other rich ceo fucks in the usa including trump
Sneakers and a minivan? You were lucky. There were 150 of us living in ‘ole in t’ middle o’ road. We used to have to suck on a damp cloth for sustenance.
No one’s asking him to pay 100 billion
Why are people mad at billionaires for being successful?
Ahh yes, let’s resort to communism because Bill gates doesn’t clip coupons.
Very clever.
This isnt the full quote, like many quotes we see. I hope that someday soon, people will begin to see that there is a comprehensive, internet based movement to divide the American people into 2 groups that despise each other. It is in this way that all of our freedoms will slip away, with us too divided to do anything about it.
Would you give your money away if you spent 80 hours a week on your business for 20 years straight with no days off?
Can I get to say how much tax I want to pay as well?
Quick maths is that somehow you pay less % when you can afford to actually miss it. Not that hard.
Goes to show even a ‘good one’ like Gates doesn’t get it.
He can. He just does not want to.
The loopholes they invent to dodge paying taxes, that same amount of energy could be used to think of a fair way to pay their share. Stop defending billionairs. They aren’t victims.
Katie Porter for president! I’ve listened to her speak before and she’s amazing.
Oh no poor bill gates will only have a single hundred billion dollars left. That’s barely enough to live on
Bill Gates isn’t our enemy.
10 billion? So not anywhere close to what he actually owes, let along what he should owe (no one should have more than 999 million)
Yes, Bill Gates is a bad example. I would say that it’s hard to justify take away all the money that these billionaires already have, but in the future, we should really impose much greater restrictions on wealth accumulation. The world would be a better place if wealth accumulation as a person reaches the top is more logarithmic than exponential. Not just because of the obvious reason, that being more evenly distributed quality of life, but also because without that manner of wealth accumulation, the hyper-competitive mentality seen at the top, leading to choices that screw over the many, would be less incentivized.