"Well, that’s the ordinary income. These great fortunes were not made through ordinary incomes. So you probably have to look to the capital gains rate and the estate tax if you want to, you know, create more equity there."
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Bill Gates, responding to Stephen Colbert's question about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal of a 70% marginal tax rate, February 13, 2019
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