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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Nov 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Daniel Radosh

      A generous attempt to disentangle exactly what Bill Gates meant by saying he'd pay $100 billion in tax. I think it's a fair point that Gates meant over a lifetime, but.....https://twitter.com/danielradosh/status/1192231112187293698 …

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      Daniel Radosh @danielradosh
      Deleted earlier tweet because @timcarvell is right that Gates was likely projecting forward and if lives to 80 he may in fact gradually pay $100 billion and then die with a mere $7 billion pic.twitter.com/mzSW4CwNBf
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Nov 2019

      ...but even if what Gates is saying is that he'd pay $100 billion over the course of a lifetime (if he lives to be really, really old) the math still doesn't work. Because the money he has would be growing as well. He'd still be one of the richest men alive.

      4:48 PM - 6 Nov 2019
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Nov 2019

          Citizen Kane: "You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years."

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Nov 2019

          Gates is like Charles Foster Kane but even more extreme. He could lose $3 billion a year every year for many decades before becoming a mere multi-billionaire.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Nov 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted nikki mccann ramírez

          But the best comment on all this is from a Tik Tok teen:https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1175248413346213888 …

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          nikki mccann ramírezVerified account @NikkiMcR
          Just replace the government with Tik Tok teens pic.twitter.com/JoV9MEiO46
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        1.  🦆 🚤 🦆 🚤 🦆 🚤  🦆  🚤‏ @_woIfgang 6 Nov 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          if he was content to be “one of” the richest men alive he wouldn’t have even made over a billion

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        1. Amanda in the pan‏ @fantabulizer 6 Nov 2019
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          It's never enough

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        1.  🪗 Bruce Triggs‏ @AccordionBruce 6 Nov 2019
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          For these guys it’s a competition As long as all the other billionaires aren’t getting richer than them they should be fine No human can tell whether they are personally living off a billion or a hundred billion dollars.

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        1. Smells Like Quarantine Spirit‏ @randicus79 6 Nov 2019
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          But he'd move, because he can, and Warren's plans don't work without him and his fellow billionaires. By pinning her candidacy on the wealth of other people she gives them the leverage.

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        1. Josiah Williams‏ @MaryJoseph__Son 6 Nov 2019
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          Lmaooo it ain’t ur money dude, let it go 😂 go build ur own Microsoft

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        1. Les Grossman‏ @LesGrossmanSJW 6 Nov 2019
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          Sic Semper Tyrannis!

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        1. Verna Wells‏ @catfishpie 6 Nov 2019
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          And he knows that. I like the guy.

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