• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    I’m fairly certain he pays every last cent he government asks of him.
    The problem is that the government has been unwilling to ask for more, and the current one certainly won’t.

    He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though, like backing the Washington Income Tax initiative with his father:

    Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft Corp. co-founder, and about two dozen other supporters of Initiative 1098 turned in 350,000 petition signatures Thursday in Olympia, many more than the roughly 241,000 required to get on the ballot. The campaign says it will turn in an additional 20,000 Friday. Gates said that it was time “to make our tax code fair for the middle class and small businesses.”

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      2 hours ago

      He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though

      Yeah, that’s called PR. The billionaires love living in a world where they can say they support something and take credit for that position in full knowledge that they’ll never actually be held accountable for it.

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        Yo this motherfucker fights diseases that kills millions and absolutely is nowhere near Musk or his shit filled ilk

        Stop consuming right wing propaganda. This dude tries more than most let humans be human fuck sake not like he set this system up

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          1 hour ago

          This dude has that button box that says “press me for a million dollars but someone somewhere will be hurt” and he spends his days pressing that button over, and over, and over, and over again.

          If he wants my affection, he needs to do this now. I will 100% change my tune if he wakes up tomorrow and donates 99% of his wealth here, in the US.

          Also, I think the world would be a better place if people didn’t simp for billionaires. His business practices are robbing all of us of value we should be getting for our taxes.

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      3 hours ago

      And that is exactly what he and his class makes sure of via their politics and clandestine political bribery lobbying efforts.