Hey Bill, why not just hand $1 Billion over to the state instead of calling for a tax on everyone else? If taxes are so good, you should be volunteering tons of your own money to the government.
Bill Gates fortune is in MicroSoft stock. It is illegal for the government to own stock. In order to turn it liquid the government would have to immediatly sell it causing all other outstanding shares to be depreciated. This would cause 401ks to be devastated by panic selling. This would be a government cause "run on the bank".
Both Gates' are dye in the wool socialists. They are hypocrites about taxes. I despise their arrogance. The Sr. Gates has no problem with the most immoral of taxes, the death tax. Has someone asked him about the families destroyed by this tax? Sr. Gates is the worse kind of elitist -- rich and liberal.