{"id":299651,"date":"2019-02-13T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=299651"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T20:58:38","slug":"bill-gates-says-he-doesnt-deserve-his-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/13\/bill-gates-says-he-doesnt-deserve-his-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Says He Doesn\u2019t Deserve His Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Let me just read the headline here. It\u2019s a New Zealand website. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/world\/nobody-deserves-to-be-this-rich-bill-gates-19277011\">Nobody Deserves To Be This Rich, Says Bill Gates<\/a>.&#8221; What have I always told you about these left-wing wealthy guys? They\u2019re the ones always saying they don\u2019t deserve it. They\u2019re the ones saying they\u2019ve got too much money. They\u2019re the ones always saying, &#8220;Raise my taxes. I\u2019m not paying enough.&#8221; Warren Buffett, ditto.<\/p>\n<p>Why do they do this? Because it keeps the people with pitchforks away from them. These madcap, deranged leftists are not wanting to take Bill Gates\u2019 money away from him, they\u2019re not wanting to punish him because Gates and Buffett and all the rest of these guys are out there saying, &#8220;I don\u2019t deserve it! It\u2019s way too much!&#8221; You don\u2019t see them giving it away. Some of them put it in foundations, but when they say they\u2019re not paying enough taxes, you never see them write additional checks to the government, do you?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-Bill-Gates-Obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-Bill-Gates-Obama.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021319-Bill-Gates-Obama-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one rich guy that came out and expressed pride in himself &#8212; the one rich guy, the one billionaire that came out and said, &#8220;I\u2019m very proud of this. I work very hard. This is the American dream&#8221; &#8212; Howard Schultz? They\u2019re trying to destroy him. Bill Gates and Buffett say, &#8220;I don\u2019t deserve this. I really don\u2019t deserve this. Nobody deserves this much money!&#8221; Gates actually said that: &#8220;Nobody deserves this much money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Gates right now is worth about $96.5 billion, and he &#8220;said he and other business barons should have to contribute more,&#8221; taxes. Bill, there\u2019s nothing stopping you from writing a check to the Treasury. But notice they don\u2019t do that. They wait around for a wealth tax that they know is never really going to materialize. But they get away with this. They get away with acting like they don\u2019t deserve it and it\u2019s unfair and raise my taxes and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>And the media and the guardians of the left say, &#8220;What a great guy! He gets it. He&#8230;&#8221; Meanwhile, his fortune keeps growing. His fortune keeps expanding. This is an interview with, I think, the U.K. Daily Mail, and he said, &#8220;I don\u2019t deserve my fortune. Nobody does. It has come through timing, through luck, and through people I worked with. I certainly worked hard, and I think software has been a beneficial thing, but I benefited from a structure too. I don\u2019t&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meaning he didn\u2019t build it. He\u2019s incorporating the Pocahontas line! (summarized) I didn\u2019t build all this. Other people did it. I don\u2019t deserve it. &#8220;I don\u2019t think giving the money to my children would be good for them or good for society.&#8221; Yet that\u2019s what he\u2019s gonna do. Don\u2019t doubt it. He\u2019s gonna leave his kids with enough money that they\u2019re not gonna have to work. He may not leave them all $96 billion. He might leave them each a billion and tell them to go rough it. But it\u2019s just classic, and I just had to point this out.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, even Bill Gates, who says that \u201cnobody deserves to be as rich as I am, and I\u2019m not paying enough taxes and I need to be paying more and nobody should be as rich,\u201d even Bill Gates says that tax plans like Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s are extreme and miss the picture. And here\u2019s a guy who wants everybody to believe he\u2019s wide open to paying much more. Oh, yeah, it\u2019s just not right people should be as rich as he is.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been claiming that he\u2019d been paying too little tax, doesn\u2019t deserve to be this rich, nobody does, and yet here comes Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal they\u2019re planning and not even Gates, even for PR purposes, can get behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Why do they do this? 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