Also, Is it true that he could give everyone in the U.S $1,000 and still be the richest man in America?
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$27.38 billion according to the Bill Gates Net Worth Page. This is based on Microsoft's current stock price.\nI am not sure about the 2nd part of your question but you may also be able to answer that on the page. There is A LOT of info available, so check it out!
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Cause he is still popular and wants to continue increasing his wealth.
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According to Forbes, there are 374 Billionaires in the US (26 of their Forbes 400 richest Americans are NOT billionaires).  http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/1010/089.html\n\nAccording to http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=6330 , there were 17.1 Million Millionaires in the US in 2002.\n\nAccording to one source, 1 in 125 Americans are millionaires (as of 2004).  http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/2004/0615millionaires.htm\n\nPartial answer, partial credit?  Hope it helps.
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Not really sure,  But I got a email from him wanting to move 30 million dollars to a bank in the USA,  is it legit?  ;)
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Normally I'd bring in sources, but have decided to merely shoot from the hip on this one. Income inequality is a dicey term. If referring specifically to the idea that some people make millions, and others make so little, then the answer is you cannot necessarily do away with that in a mostly capitalistic society. However, the way to adjust for this problem is through taxes. The rich may not like it, but the amount of money they make every year is more than most of this country will see in their entire lives. Therefore, we must re-instill the wealthy with a sense of patriotism, and institute a truly progressive taxation system. A man making a million dollars a year could easily afford to provide the government with 50-75% of their income in taxes. 90% of the population makes under $100,000 per year, so I believe that the wealthy citizen could manage with $250,000.\nNow, the argument against this is that the rich earned their money, and so they deserve it. However, those people are merely materialistic sheep. They do not understand that money isn't everything, and so they'd rather be measured by what they own and not who they are as people. Consequently, the point is not whether or not they deserve the money, the question pertains to whether or not they are compassionate human beings who understand that we're all on this planet together. If the human race would stop being so selfish, and merely put in some effort to bringing everyone up, the world would be a much better place.\nIn sumation, since the wealthy have a tendancy to be unconcerned with the plight of the poor, it is imperative for the government to provide. And, as stated, the way to provide is to tax. Everyone hates taxes, but without them there would be no government. No government means no laws, and no police or firemen. Therefore, the country would descend into chaos, and we would all lose.
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My answer is how many billions does it take to live comfortably. It is greedy to be a billionaire while people suffer in the streets, the billionaires will move their plants overseas to make even more billions. You are right in saying that capitalism is greed in disguise and god has no part of it. We have a president that has cut taxes to the very rich while waging a war that is being paid for by the poor and middle class. He is no man of god that is for sure even thought that is what he run on.
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It's purely rumor, but it wouldn't surprise me.  He was a crazy guy like that.  Most geniuses are.
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i know my family has a net worth of more than 1 million... i think what makes someone rich is being on the forbes riches list, which means having at least a billion dollars.
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The last statistics that I saw on this was a few years ago: was somewhere around 87% of the wealthiest Americans inherited 90% of their wealth.\n\nHope I can get this next part right:\nSomething like 95% of the wealth of this country is owned by 1% of the wealthiest 10%.\n\nWish I knew where to find those stats again. My numbers might be a little off but they are close. You get the idea.\n\nIt is complete bullshyt that ppl think in this 'capitalist' society that the smartest and most hard working will be the most rewarded.
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Not at all. In fact that is almost ignorant to say that, if you are a true believer in god than you know that possessions don't matter and you get possessions from $. There for you are worshiping $ not god\nI think you are trying to say that wouldn't talking to god be the greatest thing you could ever hope for. I think the better question is \nWould being a billionaire even come close to the value of the knowledge from talking to god?
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$1,000,000 .... according to wikipedia.com
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Yes, and he is still doing it all over us Americans all the while with his silver spoon in his mouth!
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Let's see.\n\nIf you actually do any form of primitive Google search, the chairman got a golden parachute of 400M, not 1B.  Even if it was 1B, it wouldn't really matter that much.\n\nLast year, Exxon had 330B in revenues, so if you add back in 400M, that's around .1%.\n\nAssume you bought gas around 3$ per gallon.  .1% of that is 3/10 of a cent.  Depending on your usage, I'd say the typical person uses around 600 gallons a year.  So, you gave him $1.80.  Off 1B, it would have been closer to $5 last year.  The actual number is probably slightly higher because things that needed transport would have been passed on, but you get the general idea.\n\nPeople get hung up on someone's pay but never get around to figuring out how much it actually affects them.  Do you still worry about how much Bill Gates makes or the CEO of Google (who's made billions in the last couple years also), etc.?
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Why in the world would he want to do that? This is such a Stupid Question. Would you WASTE 4 billion if you had it hanging around? Think!
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100% they all are wealthy...most of them got that way off the tax payers dollar
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If he don't go AWOL on it. He probably will make the claim. As far as the American people are concernd he has never served American at anything other then to serve the very rich.
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Nope!\n\nUSA has a free economy.  There is a Federal Reserve Board with 13 presidents and a Chairman (the chairman used to be Alan Greenspan.  Now it is Bernackey).  It is their job to manipulate the money supply.  They raise and lower interest rates.  This is called Monetary policy. The president of the U.S. and Congress raise and lower taxes and this is called Fiscal policy. Together Monetary policy and fiscal policy get the economy moving faster or slower.  If taxes are high and interest rates are high, not as many people can afford to buy houses or borrow money and this slows economy down.  Bernacky would in this case, cut interest rates and then a house payment would be $500 not $575 for example.  More people could afford smaller house payment so they would buy house causing demand for more houses and demand for more wood and concrete...\n\nThere is not enough Gold in the world to back up all the dollars and euroes.  NYC's Trash Department has a budget bigger than some small countries.  USA's economy is HUGE.  China has bought billions of our dollars when they buy our U.S. Treasury bonds.  When Bernacky raises interest rates, he is also raising the amount of interest USA pays on U.S. Treasury bills.