Also worried about how the all-powerful Green Party and the likes of Susan Sarandon will influence things.
2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress
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Democrats flip Virginia ,both house and senate delegates.And governors race in Kentucky to close to call.
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all billionaires are evil. seriously feck this piece of shit.
bill gates net worth minus 100 billion is still 6.8 BILLION dollars. go hang out with epstein more
if he lost 100 billion dollars in the blink of an eye he would basically have the same amount remaining as the entire gdp of kosovo
he made some computers and now he gets to determine if millions of people live or die.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-k-street-epiphany_n_5dc332d9e4b00551388225e7
Joe Biden Tells K Street Fundraiser: GOP Will Have ‘Epiphany’ After Trump
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Joe Biden Tells K Street Fundraiser: GOP Will Have ‘Epiphany’ After Trump
“Mark my words. Mark my words.”
It’s not like he has $100B sitting in the bank. Most of it are assets.
She can’t be in the squad anymore.
great. lets use those assets to give people healthcare and housing
In a better scenario, we’ll be finding those trillions of dollars stashed in overseas bank accounts.
all fortunes of that size are disreputable. all of them are built on the blood of workers.
Not to be too technical but you do understand that being "worth" 100 billion doesn't mean you have 100 billion dollars
I wouldn't quite go that far but it's hard to imagine someone building a fortune that large without at least monopolizing the industry they're in (unless it's imagined billions of course; i.e Trump). Bill Gates was no choir boy when building microsoft.
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Not to be too technical but you do understand that being "worth" 100 billion doesn't mean you have 100 billion dollars
im confident that a bernie sanders or elizabeth warren government can find a better use for it than another house with 24 bathrooms for bill gates
Well Bill Gates did give us Comic Sans. Should be punishable by painful death for that alone.
New Monmouth
(Biden/Warren/Sanders)
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23/23/20
Electability
74/71/70
Sanders has gained an average of 2 percentage points since the heart attack. He’s fading all the way to the presidency at this rate:
(Biden/Warren/Sanders)
Generics:
23/23/20
Electability
74/71/70
Sanders has gained an average of 2 percentage points since the heart attack. He’s fading all the way to the presidency at this rate:
Beto is going to take voters from him and Biden any time soon
Why ya'll gotta do Clippy like that.
Bill Gates' conditional philanthropy has always seemed really weird to me. Billy boy is how I imagine Thanos to be if I were ever made to watch Avengers.
Bill Gates' conditional philanthropy has always seemed really weird to me. Billy boy is how I imagine Thanos to be if I were ever made to watch Avengers.
How in the world do you correlate Bill Gates and Thanos
Well Thanos is a massive purple headed weapon, and so is Bill Gates.
He's essentially saying that he is okay with doubling the taxes to him. Which is fine. A lot of billionaires try to avoid paying their fare share (under current laws), which is a bigger problem than Gates saying that he is okay with doubling his taxes, but not making them 10 times higher.
His net worth would have been double of that he has today, if he didn't give 30 billion to charity.
I am not saying that he is a saint, but he is the person who has given more to charity and has payed more taxes than any other person in the history. Your point is a good one, but the example isn't. Replace Gates with Bezos or Jobs.
No the point only works this way and you dont understand it. The point is the even with giving that much money he still has more money than when he retired and theoretically stopped earning money. The underlying point is that capital earns money on its own, independent of labor and thus ties into the larger point that no one earns a billion dollars they just accumulate it due to the system of rules we have set up in this country.
I don't get this whole Bill Gates is evil thing. The guy is a genius who revolutionized computing. He built an unbelievably successful company. He then retired and gave 30bn to charity. He's done an awful lot more for this world than some of the people complaining about how wealth is inherently evil. If somebody makes a fortune through legal, ethically solid means, using their own great ideas and hard work, what the feck is wrong with that? The rich should pay their fair share of taxes.....and I have a huge problem with those that don't.....but wealth isn't inherently evil. That's just small minded ignorance to say so.
Go ahead and quote those people
I don’t need to. You already know who you are.
I haven't said that and no one else here has to my knowledge. You are making claims that someone has.
So yes, you do need to quote them.
It is a system that rewards the ideas and working smart, more than working hard (though working hard is a pre-requisite too). Sure, it is unjust and in an ideal world, billionaires probably should not exist, but that is a problem of the system, not of individuals. And Bill gates despite his immense wealth is actually one of the worst examples you can make.
If I build a startup and somehow it becomes very big and makes me a billionaire, I wouldn't suddenly become evil (by your definition), I would still be the same person I am today.
Btw, I actually despise Windows and don't use it, so not the biggest fan right there of Microsoft.
Wow those Gates quotes are really disheartening and disappointing. Expected a better response from him but I guess money trumps all.
Woe to the billionaires complaining. They don't even pay their taxes at the moment. My tax gets taken even before I know I have been paid. These guys spend tons of money not to pay taxes.
America needs a word with itself.
How can people be so detached from reality?
America needs a word with itself.
How can people be so detached from reality?
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He did say he would be willing to double tax contribution, which when you consider he’s giving a lot of his money away through his foundation, is a good bit more than the likes of Bezos are doing.
It’s cheap being rich and expensive being poor
Yep its a shitty system. But as long as its in place, I'm not going to rag on the guy who is funnelling vast quantities of that cash into charity work, and plans to donate the vast majority of his remaining fortune when he dies.
They sit on couch for a living preaching to people about working their tails of. Ainsley Earhardt as never done a proper days work in her life.
No it doesn't. He retired over a decade ago. Hes not working smart or hard or at all. That's what retirement is. And yet his net worth increased by $50 billion in 2019. That is what the system does. It rewards those who already have capital with ever more of it.
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