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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
Bill Gates
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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
Actor
Bridge Player
Computer Scientist
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William Gates
William Henry Gates III
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William Henry Bill Gates III
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The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.
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