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Bill Gates speaks at the pledge session of the 2024 World Health Summit in 2014. In a new interview, he said he can see 15 percent cuts to many government agencies, but doesn’t want groups ...
As a founder of Breakthrough Energy, Gates has dedicated substantial resources to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 – a goal the company describes as "the most difficult challenge humanity ...
Bill Gates, one of the richest men on the planet, said he is giving $20 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this month, adding that "rather than returning the foundation's budget to...
In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's largest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion.
The practice, traditionally referred to as population control, had historically been implemented mainly with the goal of increasing population growth, though from the 1950s to the 1980s, concerns about overpopulation and its effects on poverty, the environment and political stability led to efforts to reduce population growth rates in many ...
Reduce the current six income tax rates to just two (15% and 27%). It would reduce the corporate tax rate to 27% from 35% today. The panel would also eliminate most tax expenditures (roughly $1 trillion per year), with the exception of the mortgage interest and charitable deductions.
Bill Gates said his ideal tax system would slash his net worth by 62% or about $100 billion, but still reward entrepreneurs.
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of June 2022, the pledge has had 236 signatories from 28 countries. [1]