{"id":13414,"date":"2024-10-02T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=13414"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:58:56","slug":"bill-gates-says-he-would-tax-the-rich-including-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/bill-gates-says-he-would-tax-the-rich-including-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Says He Would Tax The Rich, Including Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Does Bill Gates, the sixth richest person<\/a> in the world with a net worth of $163 billion, think he’s too rich?<\/p>\n

Gates avoided answering “yes” or “no” in a September episode<\/a> of the Netflix series “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates<\/a>.” Instead, he stated that it was “kind of wild” that billionaires even existed.<\/p>\n

“It’s a huge amount of wealth, which if you even tried to consume it would be kind of absurd,” he said.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/b>Bill Gates Recommends These Books for Your Summer Reading List<\/a><\/p>\n

On a podcast episode of On with Kara Swisher<\/a>, which aired Monday, Gates specified that he would set up a different tax framework for the ultra-wealthy if he were in charge of tax policies, and set the rate around 62%.<\/p>\n

“I would set tax rates quite a bit higher for rich people,” he said in the episode, titled ‘How to Tax the Rich, AI, Misinformation, & the Election.” He referenced Senator Bernie Sanders and stated, “I would not make it illegal to be a billionaire. [Bernie Sanders] would take away over 99% of what I have. I would take away 62% of what I have. So that’s a difference.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Bill Gates. Photo by Mike Lawrence\/Getty Images<\/i><\/sup><\/p>\n

Gates is one of the co-founders of the Giving Pledge<\/a>, an organization started in 2010 to inspire billionaires to publicly commit to philanthropy. He has given away $77.6 billion<\/a> so far through the Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n

His ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, left the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a> in May and announced that she would be giving $1 billion<\/a> to organizations fighting for women’s rights.<\/p>\n

Related:<\/b> ‘There Is More To Life Than Work’: Bill Gates Delivers Emotional Message To Graduates About Learning To Take A Break<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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