Left-wing billionaire Bill Gates attacked the United States during a CNN interview on Sunday while praising communist China, claiming that China &#8220;did a lot of things right at the beginning&#8221; of the coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan.
CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria asked Gates: &#8220;How would you respond to the charge that the Chinese covered this up, they essentially deceived the rest of the world, and as a result, they should be held in someway responsible for this?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a timely thing because it doesn&#8217;t affect how we act today,&#8221; Gates claimed. &#8220;China did a lot of things right at the beginning. Like any country where a virus first shows up, they can look back and see where they missed some things.”
China has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html">falsely claimed</a> that the coronavirus came from the United States Army; tried to cover it up by <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932">silencing</a> doctors and journalists who were trying to warn the world; <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/world-health-organization-blame-pandemic-coronavirus/609820/">told</a> the world that there was not evidence the coronavirus could be transmitted person to person when they <a href="https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9">knew</a> for a fact that it could; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says">intentionally lied</a> about how bad the outbreak was and tried to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000">cover up</a> deaths; and is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-still-misleads-the-world-on-the-coronavirus-11586818132">allegedly</a> continuing to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-still-not-letting-u-s-in-to-study-coronavirus-mike-pompeo-says">withhold</a> critical information about the outbreak.
China&#8217;s dishonesty has been so brazen that its own allies have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-hits-at-ally-china-chinas-coronavirus-numbers-a-bitter-joke-not-trustworthy">called out</a> the communist nation.
&#8220;Some countries did respond very quickly and get their testing in place and they avoided the incredible economic pain, and its sad that even the U.S., that you would have expected to do this well, did it particularly poorly,&#8221; Gates claimed.
China&#8217;s economy has been <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-17/china-s-economy-contracts-for-first-time-since-at-least-1992">devastated</a> by the outbreak, as have many of the world&#8217;s leading economies.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a distraction,&#8221; Gates claimed about criticisms of China.
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Bill Gates claims that criticisms of how China lied and covered up the coronavirus is a “distraction”: “China did a lot of things right at the beginning … they avoided the incredible economic pain … I think there’s a lot of incorrect and unfair things said”
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Gates&#8217; remarks were immediately picked up and promoted by Chinese state propagandists.
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Chinese state propagandists promoting <a href="https://twitter.com/BillGates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillGates</a> defense of the Chinese government. <a href="https://t.co/EvqXJuwvfw">https://t.co/EvqXJuwvfw</a>
&mdash; Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) <a href="https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1254468244209008644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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China has also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/world/the-sars-epidemic-epidemic-china-admits-underreporting-its-sars-cases.html">admitted</a> to falsely reporting numbers about pandemics that have started in their country, like the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic.
The Atlantic <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/china-trolling-world-and-avoiding-blame/608332/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks, the regime imperiled not only its own country and its own citizens but also the more than 100 nations now facing their own potentially devastating outbreaks. More perniciously, the Chinese government censored and detained those brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity of what was to come.
Some American commentators and Democratic politicians are aghast at Donald Trump and Republicans for referring to the pandemic as the “Wuhan virus” and repeatedly pointing to China as the source of the pandemic. In naming the disease COVID-19, the World Health Organization specifically avoided mentioning Wuhan. Yet in de-emphasizing where the epidemic began (something China has been aggressively pushing for), we run the risk of obscuring Beijing’s role in letting the disease spread beyond its borders.
China has a history of mishandling outbreaks, including SARS in 2002 and 2003. But Chinese leaders’ negligence in December and January—for well over a month after the first outbreak in Wuhan—far surpasses those bungled responses. The end of last year was the time for authorities to act, and, as Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times has noted, “act decisively they did—not against the virus, but against whistle-blowers who were trying to call attention to the public health threat.”</blockquote>
Studies have reportedly shown that had China taken action earlier, the outbreak could have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-coronavirus-outbreak-could-have-been-reduced-by-95-if-china-acted-sooner">reduced</a> by 95% and could have been regionally contained.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-explains-why-he-thinks-china-allowed-flights-out-of-wuhan-during-outbreak">claimed</a> on Sunday that he believes that China allowed international flights to continue out of China during the outbreak because the Chinese government knew that it was going to devastate their economy, and they didn&#8217;t want the rest of the world, in particular the United States, passing them by while they suffered severe economic damage.
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Bill Gates Attacks U.S., Praises China: ‘China Did A Lot Of Things Right At The Beginning’

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China

Coronavirus

COVID-19

Attorney General William Barr told Fox News&#8217; Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night that he was &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about billionaire Bill Gates&#8217; apparent desire to have &#8220;digital certificates&#8221; to show if people have been vaccinated against viruses.
&#8220;Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation are in favor of developing digital certificates that would certify that individuals, American citizens, have an immunity to this virus and potentially other viruses going forward to then facilitate travel and work and so forth,&#8221; Ingraham said. &#8220;What are your thoughts from a civil libertarian point of view about these types of – what some would say tracking mechanisms that would be adopted going forward to reopen our broader economy?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, I’m very concerned about the slippery slope in terms of continuing encroachments on personal liberty,&#8221; Barr responded. &#8220;I do think during the emergency, appropriate, reasonable steps are fine.&#8221;
&#8220;But a digital certificate to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has – of people who’ve received it,&#8221; Ingraham continued. &#8220;That’s his answer in a Reddit ask me anything. They had a little forum.&#8221;
Barr answered, &#8220;Yeah, I’d be a little concerned about that, the tracking of people and so forth, generally, especially going forward over a long period of time.&#8221;
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Bill Gates apparently favors digital certificates to show an American citizen has immunity to a virus. 
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<blockquote>LAURA: Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation are in favor of developing digital certificates that would certify that individuals, American citizens, have an immunity to this virus and potentially other viruses going forward to then facilitate travel and work and so forth. What are your thoughts from a civil libertarian point of view about these types of – what some would say tracking mechanisms that would be adopted going forward to reopen our broader economy?
BARR: Yeah, I’m very concerned about the slippery slope in terms of continuing encroachments on personal liberty. I do think during the emergency, appropriate, reasonable steps are fine.
LAURA: But a digital certificate to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has – of people who’ve received it. That’s his answer in a Reddit ask me anything. They had a little forum.
BARR: Yeah, I’d be a little concerned about that, the tracking of people and so forth, generally, especially going forward over a long period of time.
LAURA: Are you surprised at how wildly partisan a response to this pandemic has become in the United States? I know everything’s political, but this is about saving lives and saving the broader life of America, and yet from a drug like hydroxychloroquine that’s been around for 65 years, 70 years, to other measures the president’s taken, working with Democrat governors quite well, looks like, it never seems to be good enough.
BARR: No, I have been surprised at it. In fact, it was very disappointing because I think the president went out at the beginning of this thing and really was statesman like, trying to bring people together, working with all the governors, keeping his patience as he got these snarky, gotcha questions from the White House media pool. And it – the stridency of the partisan attacks on him has gotten higher and higher, and it’s really disappointing to see. And the politicization of decisions like hydroxychloroquine has been amazing to me. Before the president said anything about it, there was fair and balanced coverage of this very promising drug, and the fact that it had such a long track record, that the risks were pretty well known, and as soon as he said something positive about it, the media’s been on a jahad to discredit the drug, it’s quite strange.
LAURA: There&#8217;s a lot of concern now, given the &#8212; again, the length of this time, the concern when you hear Dr. Fauci say, well we probably can&#8217;t go back to normal life until a vaccine, would be like 12 months, 18 months, that if things don&#8217;t open up pretty soon, over some gradual reopening with new protocols and all that, there&#8217;s a concern about social unrest. You&#8217;re seeing a lot of stores boarded up in San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and you&#8217;re seeing more of that, small businesses affected, especially by theft and &#8212; and other criminal activity. How concerned are you about the social unrest and criminal activity in an ongoing shutdown?
BARR: I mean, I think if we extend a full shutdown, that&#8217;s a real &#8212; that&#8217;s a real threat in some of our communities. But, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s limited to that. I think the president&#8217;s absolutely right, we cannot keep, for a long period of time, our economy shut down. Just on the public health thing, you know, it means less cancer &#8212; cancer researchers are at home. A lot of the disease researchers, who will save lives in the future, that&#8217;s being held in abeyance. The money that goes into these institutions, whether philanthropic sources or government sources, is going to be reduced. We will have a weaker healthcare system if we go into a deep depression. So, just measured in lives, the cure cannot be worse than the disease. But when you think of everything else, generations of families who have built up businesses, for generations in this country &#8212; and recent immigrants who have &#8212; who have built businesses, snuffed out. Small business that may not be able to come back if this goes on too long. So, we have to find, after the 30 day period, we have to find a way of allowing businesses to adapt to this situation and figure out how they can best get started. That&#8217;s not necessarily instantaneously going back to the way life was &#8212;
LAURA: Well, people are going to be afraid to go out for a long period of time.
BARR: A period of time.
LAURA: And they&#8217;re going to be afraid to restaurants, not &#8212; maybe won&#8217;t go to the re-up at their health club &#8212;
BARR: Right. Right.
LAURA: &#8212; but people have to have confidence that it&#8217;s decently safe out there to move around.
BARR: Right. And that&#8217;s why they have to be given accurate information. But also we have to make PPE more broadly available. Restaurants have to change their protocols, perhaps, or other businesses &#8212;
LAURA: A lot of them can&#8217;t stay in business if they can&#8217;t pack it in. You know D.C., and they&#8217;ve got to pack &#8212; that&#8217;s the only way they make money paying these jacked up rents.
BARR: That&#8217;s &#8212; right, that&#8217;s a danger. That&#8217;s a danger. So, I think we have to allow people to figure out ways of getting back to work and keep their workers and customers safe. I&#8217;m not suggesting we stop social distancing overnight. There may come a time where we have to worry less about that. So, you know, I don&#8217;t know when that will be.
LAURA: One question I didn&#8217;t ask before &#8212; federalism, states rights, the president has been very clear on that during this health crisis. Are you surprised that certain states, New Jersey, in particular, had come in to say that gun stores are nonessential, gun shops are nonessential, but abortion facilities are essential, given &#8212; given what we&#8217;re facing?
BARR: Well, I&#8217;m not surprised. I mean, that&#8217;s where our politics are these days. But, obviously, the federal government agreed that gun stores are essential.
LAURA: And abortion facilities in Texas deemed nonessential by the governor, lieutenant governor very strong on that, that saw a lot of legal challenges. Do you foresee &#8212;
BARR: I think it was just upheld.
INGRAHAM: Yes. Will you &#8212; do you foresee that continuing those types of challenges going forward, against what is essential in a crisis?
BARR: Well, I mean, again, after this &#8212; this period where we&#8217;re &#8212; we have very strong restrictions in place, hopefully there won&#8217;t be a need for those kinds of distinctions to be made.
LAURA: Oh, you think the people are going to have the benevolent approaches? I mean that &#8212; the left is clearly trying to use this to reshape American society. This is &#8212; never let a crisis go to waste. Now we&#8217;re going to do climate change policy and a massive wealth redistribution for the disparities in healthcare. That&#8217;s what all the Democrat politicians are now talking about going forward.
BARR: Yes, I&#8217;m concerned about that.
INGRAHAM: How has this changed your daily life? I mean, it&#8217;s changed everybody&#8217;s lives. We&#8217;ve never lived through anything like this. Just personally reflect on it.
BARR: I still come in most days, and we sit at the conference very spread out when we&#8217;ve &#8211; when we need a meeting. We do more by telephone and by a group teleconference and video conference than we have before. And &#8212;
INGRAHAM: Do you take your temperature when you come in? Do you &#8212;
BARR: I take my temperature. I was &#8212; I&#8217;m tested occasionally at the White House when I&#8217;m going in to see the president. And, you know, we&#8217;re starting to wear more &#8212; as PPE becomes available beyond the healthcare industry, we&#8217;re wearing more PPE.
INGRAHAM: Will you wear a mask going out in public if you just had to go to the grocery today? I know you don&#8217;t go to the grocery store, but if you had to go to the grocery store, Mr. Attorney General &#8212;
BARR: Yes, I actually wear a mask &#8212;
INGRAHAM: &#8212; would you?
BARR: &#8212; I wear a mask and my security detail wear masks when we go in every morning and when we go home, and frequently I&#8217;ll wear it here in the office. I didn&#8217;t think you&#8217;d let me wear it on this show (laughter).
LAURA: Yes, would you &#8212; is there a little &#8212;
BARR: Although maybe it would be better.
LAURA: &#8212; is there a little design or anything? Or is it just classic &#8212;
BARR: Yes, you have to put a little smiley face on it. (laughter)
LAURA: Yes, you don&#8217;t have anything good. OK. All right, Mr. Attorney General, thank you so much for joining.
BARR: Thank you. Thanks. Thank you.
LAURA: We appreciate it.</blockquote>

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AG Barr On Bill Gates Wanting ‘Digital’ Vaccine ‘Certificates’: I’m ‘Very Concerned About’ Slippery Slope

Vaccines

William Barr

A second potential COVID-19 vaccine has entered Phase 1 clinical human testing after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted an application from Inovio Pharmaceuticals.
&#8220;Inovio plans to inject its first volunteer test subject with the INO-4800 DNA vaccine candidate it has developed, following promising results from preclinical studies performed on animals that did indicate increased immune response,&#8221; <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/06/a-second-potential-covid-19-vaccine-backed-by-bill-and-melinda-gates-is-entering-human-testing/">Tech Crunch</a> reported Monday.
&#8220;This is a significant step forward in the global fight against COVID-19,&#8221; Dr. J. Joseph Kim, INOVIO&#8217;s president and CEO, said in a <a href="http://ir.inovio.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2020/INOVIO-Initiates-Phase-1-Clinical-Trial-Of-Its-COVID-19-Vaccine-and-Plans-First-Dose-Today/default.aspx">statement</a>.
&#8220;Without a new safe and effective vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to continue to threaten lives and livelihoods. It also demonstrates the power of our DNA medicines platform to rapidly develop and advance a vaccine for COVID-19 into Phase 1 clinical testing. Our dedicated team of staff, partners and funders have been mobilized since the genetic sequence of the virus became available in early January and continues to work around the clock to ensure that we are rapidly advancing INO-4800 through this Phase 1 study towards planned efficacy trials.&#8221;
<blockquote>The Phase 1 study of INO-4800 will enroll up to 40 healthy adult volunteers in Philadelphia, PA (at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) and Kansas City, MO (at the Center for Pharmaceutical Research), where screening of potential participants has already begun. Study supplies of INO-4800 arrived at the sites last week. Each participant will receive two doses of INO-4800 four weeks apart, and the initial immune responses and safety data from the study are expected by late summer. Preclinical data, which have been shared with global regulatory authorities and submitted as part of the IND, have shown promising immune response results across multiple animal models. Additional preclinical trials, including challenge studies, will continue in parallel with the Phase 1 clinical trial.</blockquote>
Tech Crunch said Inovio was able to produce thousands of doses &#8220;in part thanks to backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as funding from other nonprofits and organizations.&#8221;
The company says it should be able to produce as much as one million doses of the vaccine by the end of the year if the trials are successful. The doses would be ready for &#8220;potential emergency use pending authorization,&#8221; Tech Crunch reports.
The first potential vaccine began human testing in mid-March. The National Institutes of Health is funding that trial, which is taking place in Seattle at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. That testing began with 45 young, healthy volunteers who have been injected with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc.
Meanwhile, a first set of tests in mice of a potential vaccine to prevent COVID-19 has shown it can spur the animals&#8217; immune systems to produce antibodies against the coronavirus.
The vaccine is delivered via a fingertip-sized, Band-Aid-like patch made of 400 tiny needles that scratch the skin. The researchers who are developing the vaccine say the immune system reacts more readily to irritations of the skin, which means doing so could trigger it to target the coronavirus.
When tested on mice, they developed antibodies to fight the coronavirus within two weeks.
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Second Potential COVID-19 Vaccine, Backed By Bill Gates, Enters Human Testing

On Thursday, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, apparently deciding he was his own version of Robin Hood, attacked Microsoft CEO Bill Gates by tweeting, “Say Bill Gates was actually taxed $100 billion. We could end homelessness and provide safe drinking water to everyone in this country. Bill would still be a multibillionaire. Our message: the billionaire class cannot have it all when so many have so little.”
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Say Bill Gates was actually taxed $100 billion. 
We could end homelessness and provide safe drinking water to everyone in this country.
Bill would still be a multibillionaire. 
Our message: the billionaire class cannot have it all when so many have so little. <a href="https://t.co/fVlxuIGygf">https://t.co/fVlxuIGygf</a>
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1192478435693780992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Of course, Sanders got it wrong, as the communist sympathizer must envision Robin Hood as the man who restored wealth stolen by the rich from the poor. But if Sanders indeed had any literary knowledge beyond the Communist Manifesto, he would know that Robin Hood took money from those who were unfairly taxing the citizenry. Taxing the citizenry is exactly what Sanders continually advocates as he maligns wealthy, successful people who have created millions of jobs while he sits comfortably in the Senate without having created jobs on his own.
So how many workers does Gates keep employed while Sanders flies around advocating redistributing the accumulated wealth of the United States? <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerenblankfeld/2016/10/18/american-billionaires-behind-the-most-jobs/#35845291693f">Forbes</a> noted three years ago:
<blockquote>Since Gates and his friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975, the software firm has acquired a slew of companies, including video and calling application Skype and Nokia&#8217;s device and services business. Altogether, Microsoft now has more than 114,000 full-time workers. These do not include employees of professional network company LinkedIn, which Microsoft announced in June that it has agreed to acquire; once that acquisition is complete, it will add another 9,900 full-time employees to Microsoft&#8217;s roster, bringing its total employment closer to Oracle&#8217;s.</blockquote>
Forbes also noted: “The top 12 billionaire job creators — all together worth more than $308 billion — have generated at least 2.3 million jobs globally.” As of three years ago, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank of Home Depot had created 385,000 jobs.
Now let’s take a look at Sanders: after his graduation from college, he worked as a Head Start teacher, a psychiatric aide, and a carpenter. Not many jobs created there. After that he became a politician. Not many jobs created there.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanders-was-kicked-out-commune-laziness-hank-berrien">The Daily Wire</a> noted in 2016
<blockquote>If you think socialists are lazy, good-for-nothings who want things just because they are breathing, rather than working for them, Bernie Sanders <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/bernie-sanders-asked-leave-hippie-commune/">would agree with you</a>. At least, if he believes in himself.
According to the new book We Are As Gods, by Kate Daloz, which tells the tale of the rise and fall of the Myrtle Hill Farm in northeast Vermont, Sanders was told to leave the commune in 1971 because he didn’t work, instead “sitting around and talking” about politics.
Daloz writes that Sanders engaged in “endless political discussion,” while the residents seethed; one resident, Craig, “resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie’s orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day.” Daloz concludes, “When Bernie had stayed for Myrtle’s allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on.”
The commune’s politics must have <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/">agreed with Sanders</a>, who made several “goodwill” trips to the USSR, Cuba and Nicaragua. He called the rise to power of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government in Nicaragua a “heroic revolution.”</blockquote>
Gates and his wife? According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/philanthropy-50-how-much-bezos-gates-zuckerberg-charities-gave-away.html">CNBC</a>, &#8220;&#8230; the Gates have given a total of $45.5 billion through their foundation and other family foundations, dating back to 1994, the Chronicle of Philanthropy notes.&#8221;

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Bernie Sanders Attacks Bill Gates’ Wealth. Gates Employs Over 100,000 People. Sanders Does Other Things.

Bernie Sanders

Microsoft founder Bill Gates had some choice words for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at the New York Times DealBook Conference Wednesday, telling the audience that he was undecided on who to vote for in a Warren versus President Donald Trump matchup, and questioned Warren&#8217;s habit of degrading wealth.
&#8220;I&#8217;m all for super-progressive tax systems,&#8221; Gates told the audience. &#8220;I&#8217;ve paid over $10 billion in taxes. I&#8217;ve paid more than anyone in taxes. If I had to pay $20 billion, it&#8217;s fine.&#8221;
&#8220;But when you say I should pay $100 billion, then I&#8217;m starting to do a little math about what I have left over,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You really want the incentive system to be there without threatening that.&#8221;
When a country raises its taxes too high, Gates, who has a $100 billion net worth, claimed, &#8220;you do risk the capital formation, innovation.&#8221;
Gates&#8217; biggest concern seems to be Warren&#8217;s habit of villifying wealth and the wealthy, and failing to consider what billionaires like Gates ultimately contribute beyond simply being a font for tax dollars to fund expensive, expansive government programs with questionable effectiveness.
“Maybe I’m just too biased to think that if you create a company that’s super-valuable, that at least some part of that, you should be able to have &#8212; a little bit for consumption, and hopefully the balance to do philanthropic things,” Gates added, referencing the hundreds of billions he&#8217;s given away to programs fighting malaria in Africa, promoting global equality, promoting population control, and tackling climate change &#8212; all priorities of a possible Warren administration.
Gates concluded by questioning Warren&#8217;s willingness to listen to opposing points of view, even if they come from figures like Gates, who are clearly left-leaning politically, even to the point of contributing regularly to Democratic politicians. Gates, in comparison to other tech billionaires, is a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/richest-billionaires-are-top-political-spenders/">stingy political donor </a>but the Gates Foundation gives overwhelmingly to Democrats, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000031958&amp;cycle=2014">according to Open Secrets</a>.
“You know, I’m not sure how open-minded she is,” the billionaire philanthropist continued. “Or that she’d even be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money.”
When asked whether he&#8217;d vote for Warren over Trump, Gates was non-commital.
&#8220;I’m not going to make political declarations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I do think no matter what policy somebody has in mind, a professional approach is even, as much as I disagree with some of the policy things that are out there, I do think a professional approach to the office is … whoever I decide will have the more professional approach in the current situation probably is the thing that I will weigh the most. And I hope that the more professional candidate is an electable candidate.&#8221;
Warren, not one to take a hint from Gates or anyone else, responded to Gates&#8217; concerns by indicating that she&#8217;d be happy to help him calculate his tax burden under her plans.
&#8220;I&#8217;m always happy to meet with people, even if we have different views,&#8221; Warren tweeted. &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/BillGates">@BillGates</a>, if we get the chance, I&#8217;d love to explain exactly how much you&#8217;d pay under my wealth tax. (I promise it&#8217;s not $100 billion.)&#8221;
But it&#8217;s not immediately clear that she can promise it won&#8217;t be $100 billion &#8212; or that anyone who regularly pays taxes will have much left over after she gets through with them. She only promises that they&#8217;ll get a return on investment from a heavy tax system.
“Yes, billionaires will have to pay a little more, but they will still likely pay less than what they would earn just from putting their assets into an index fund and doing nothing,&#8221; Warren wrote in her tax &#8220;plan&#8221; released last week after complaints surfaced that she would be unable to pay for her massive &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; program without raising taxes across the board.
Leftists who support Warren had an answer to her &#8220;Gates&#8221; problem, though: cancel Bill Gates.
Anand Giridharadas, an editor-at-large for TIME magazine spoke for his bretheren.
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Astonishing.<a href="https://twitter.com/BillGates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillGates</a>, the great philanthropist of our age, is so attached to his own wealth that he refuses to rule out voting to re-elect a white nationalist demagogue over Elizabeth Warren.<a href="https://t.co/l0AkM8eRZF">https://t.co/l0AkM8eRZF</a>
&mdash; Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1192218814643089408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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We are witnessing the unraveling of one of the great pretensions of our age.
All along, we were told that these billionaires really cared about equality and justice above all. Bill Gates was trotted out as the example of choice when others behaved more dubiously.
&mdash; Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1192219369671147521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Philanthropy is no substitute for taxation and a fairer set of social arrangements,&#8221; Giridharadas went on to say.

Bill Gates Blasts Elizabeth Warren Over Her Wealth Tax

Melinda Gates, the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has pledged to spend up to $1 billion over the next 10 years to promote gender equality.
In an op-ed for <a href="https://time.com/5690596/melinda-gates-empowering-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk">Time magazine</a> published on Wednesday, Gates, who has routinely pushed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melinda-gates-women-people-color-should-be-paul-bois">population control in third-world countries</a>, announced her commitment to seeing more women in positions of power throughout the United States.
&#8220;For most of our history, women’s absence from positions of power and influence wasn’t newsworthy; it was normal. The fact we’re now talking about these inequities is itself a sign of progress,&#8221; writes Gates.
While Gates appreciates the progress that women have made in recent years, citing the Women&#8217;s March and #MeToo movements as evidence, she ultimately fears that the moment will soon fizzle out.
&#8220;Here’s what keeps me up at night: I imagine waking up one morning to find that the country has moved on,&#8221; she says. &#8220;That the media has stopped reporting on systemic inequalities. That diversity remains something companies talk about instead of prioritizing. That all of this energy and attention has amounted to a temporary swell instead of a sea change.&#8221;
&#8220;There is too much at stake to allow that to happen,&#8221; she laments. &#8220;Too many people — women and men — have worked too hard to get us this far. And there are too many possible solutions we haven’t tried yet. That’s why, over the next ten years, I am committing $1 billion to expanding women’s power and influence in the United States.&#8221;
The goal of this funding, according to Gates, is to see more women in positions of power, enabling them to shape the country&#8217;s future.
&#8220;I want to see more women in the position to make decisions, control resources, and shape policies and perspectives,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;I believe that women’s potential is worth investing in — and the people and organizations working to improve women’s lives are, too.&#8221;
&#8220;$1 billion is a lot of money, but I also recognize that it’s only a small fraction of what’s necessary,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;That’s why I hope the financial commitment I’m making today is seen as both a vote of confidence in the experts and advocates who are already working on these issues — and an invitation for others to join the cause and make commitments of their own. Equality can’t wait, and no one in a position to act should either.&#8221;
As noted previously, the Gates family, by way of their foundation, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melinda-gates-women-people-color-should-be-paul-bois">been pushing population control measures</a> in third-world countries over the past decade, routinely giving money to abortion providers like International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International. Speaking with David Letterman back in June, Melinda Gates said that the family&#8217;s foundation functions in the same way as the Rockefeller Foundation or the Carnegie Foundation — as a non-profit that experiments in social engineering to provide a potential model for government. In the same interview, she even boasted how population control measures create divisions between husbands and wives within marriage.
&#8220;Here’s how we know [change] is possible; in every country in the world where you’re given access to modern contraceptives, it only takes one generation for them to be fully uptake, and for them to see the birthrate decline,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And once they have consistent access, women will use it, and what they’ll also do is they’ll do it covertly without their husband knowing it.&#8221;

The Robin Hood Foundation&#8217;s 2018 Benefit

Melinda Gates Pledges $1 Billion To Promote Female Empowerment Over The Next Decade

Feminism

Speaking with David Letterman on his Netflix show, Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire Bill Gates, outlined the many social engineering initiatives behind the couple&#8217;s famous philanthropic organization, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/melinda-gates-speaks-gender-equality-empowering-women-tech-1218034">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Gates discussed with Letterman how her philanthropic organization functions in the same way as the Rockefeller Foundation or the Carnegie Foundation &#8212; as a non-profit that experiments in social engineering to provide a potential model for government.
&#8220;What philanthropy can do that a government can&#8217;t do with taxpayer funding is to take some risks, and if they prove out, then it&#8217;s up to us to get government to really scale them up,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Our foundation uniquely thinks about, where can we uniquely act in the world? So a lot of the work we do in the developing world is around health, because if you don&#8217;t start with great health, you can&#8217;t go on to get a great education and reach your full potential.&#8221;
Later in the interview, Melinda Gates referenced the various population control initiatives that the foundation participates in by way of contraception. Eventually, she even boasts how this population control measure creates divisions between husbands and wives within marriage.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s how we know [change] is possible; in every country in the world where you&#8217;re given access to modern contraceptives, it only takes one generation for them to be fully uptake, and for them to see the birthrate decline,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And once they have consistent access, women will use it, and what they&#8217;ll also do is they&#8217;ll do it covertly without their husband knowing it.&#8221;
Though Melinda Gates made no mention of abortion in her comments to Letterman, the Gates Foundation routinely gives money to abortion providers like International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International. Her comments on population control follow a report from <a href="https://allafrica.com/stories/201811150076.html">All Africa</a> last year about the Gates family donating $18 million to &#8220;family planning programs&#8221; through the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
As noted by<a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/15/bill-gates-will-spend-18-million-pushing-population-control-on-africa/"> LifeNews</a>, Bill and Melinda Gates have earned for themselves a notorious reputation of &#8220;<a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2018/10/31/bill-gates-pushes-population-control-on-africa-instead-of-helping-with-clean-water-or-education/">pushing birth control on some of the world&#8217;s poorest countries</a> while their people cry for clean water, food and basic health care.&#8221; UNFPA has<a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/10/chinas-one-child-policy-and-unfpa-a-silent-but-deadly-partnership/"> also been linked to oppressive population control measures</a> in China, including <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/04/president-trump-defunds-unfpa-which-promotes-abortion-and-pushes-population-control-in-china/">forced sterilizations and abortions</a>.
All Africa reported in November that the UNFPA family planning program will direct supplies to countries like Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d&#8217;Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo. The stated goal: 120 million girls using contraception by 2020.
&#8220;Under the Ouagadougou Partnership, family planning efforts will be made with initiatives that enable 120 million more women and girls to use contraceptives by 2020 and accelerate progress in the use of family planning services in targeted countries,&#8221; reported All Africa.
In June of last year, Melinda Gates<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31918/melinda-gates-upset-president-trump-defunded-paul-bois"> blasted the Trump administration</a> for defunding the International Planned Parenthood by reinstating <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2017/01/23/president-donald-trump-signs-executive-order-to-defund-international-planned-parenthood/">the Mexico City Policy</a> shortly after taking office, effectively stripping $100 million from the abortion giant.
Speaking to Britain&#8217;s Today Program, Melinda Gates called the administration&#8217;s Mexico City Policy &#8220;very troubling&#8221; and criticized its broad expansion, which effectively forced &#8220;reproductive health organizations have to say, even if you&#8217;re not receiving government funding for abortions, you won&#8217;t even do these [abortions] in your clinic with funding, say, from the U.K. or from France.&#8221;
&#8220;He [Trump] is proposing not funding family planning and that is a huge problem,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If you believe in women, you fund family planning and so I&#8217;m counting on Congress in the U.S. to hold up U.S. funding on family planning.&#8221;

Melinda Gates Champions Population Control In Third World Countries

Birth Control

On Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Michael Knowles Show,&#8221; bestselling author and bestselfpromoting podcast host Michael Knowles critiques New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s idea to pay for folks who are &#8220;unwilling to work.&#8221; Transcript and video below.
How is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going to pay for everybody not to work?
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AOC: One of the reasons that this ideology, or questions of whatever you want to call it &#8212; democratic socialism or techno futurism or like whatever &#8212; it is because our technological advancement as a society has outpaced our system for handling finite resources. Because now we are approaching infinite resources.
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What? This sounds like that one of those late-night bull sessions that you have freshman year, or when you&#8217;re really hammered, that&#8217;s what she sounds like. She said, &#8220;You know, yeah man, cuz you know man, we&#8217;re thinking in a finite world, you know? But imagine if it were infinite&#8230;&#8221; We&#8217;re not going, by the way, to an infinite resources economy, things in the material world are finite. This woman is 29 years old, she has a college degree, theoretically, she majored in economics, which is evidence to decertify the BU economics program. What does that mean? &#8220;We&#8217;re thinking in this kind of finite world.&#8221; I don&#8217;t even know.
Bill Gates has an idea that she brought up recently as well:
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AOC: You know Bill Gates has talked about taxing robots at 90%, and what that means, what he&#8217;s really talking about is taxing corporations at 90%, but it&#8217;s easier to say tax a robot.
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Not really, actually. It&#8217;s no surprise Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn&#8217;t know much about how taxation works, she thought that a tax incentive was just giving out money from a slush pile with regard to the Amazon move into New York, so she doesn&#8217;t know what taxes are. What Bill Gates means when he says we need to tax robots is not that we&#8217;re gonna tax corporations, we already tax corporations and we&#8217;re gonna continue to tax corporations, and until President Trump, we had one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.
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What it means to &#8220;tax robots&#8221; is to tax capital investment. If you&#8217;re a business owner, you&#8217;ve got your money, whatever your cash flow is, whatever investment you&#8217;ve got, whatever money you&#8217;ve got at your use you can put it into one of two things.
Capital, that is to say renovating the store, buying robots, touchscreens at McDonald&#8217;s, or labor &#8211; people. You can hire more people, you can pay your people more, you can whatever. Capital and labor, those are the two places that you can invest your money. So when you tax the robots what you are really taxing is capital investment, so what you are really taxing is automation, so what you are really doing is creating an incentive to keep paying the tollbooth operator. So where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began her argument is &#8220;don&#8217;t worry about the tollbooth operator, let the tollbooth operator lose her job we&#8217;re gonna automate everything, it&#8217;ll be great.&#8221; And how are you going to deal with the toll-booth operator? &#8220;Oh, we&#8217;re going to create economic incentives not to automate anybody so that the tollbooth operator can keep her job.&#8221; You just said it was good for the tollbooth operator to lose her job, now you&#8217;re advocating for economic incentives to let the tollbooth operator keep her job. All of this amounts to AOC not really understanding very much about economics, but this is no surprise.
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KNOWLES: AOC Proves Again She Doesn’t Understand How The Economy Works

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Conservatism

Economy

Michael Knowles

The Democratic Party establishment seems to have had enough of freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez (D-NY). Now, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is taking swipes at her.
In an interview on a <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220756/bill-gates-tax-rate-70-percent-marginal-modern-monetary-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcast at tech website The Verge</a>, the famous billionaire said that the tax proposals laid out by Ocasio-Cortez &#8212; 70% for everyone above $10 million &#8211; misses the big picture. According to Gates, there exists a difference between the government running efficient programs and taxing people into oblivion.
&#8220;Certainly, the idea of government being more effective in terms of how it runs education or social programs, there&#8217;s a lot of opportunity for improvement there,&#8221; Gates said in the podcast, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/tech/bill-gates-slams-ocasio-cortez-says-her-tax-policy-is-missing-the-picture">Fox News</a>. &#8220;In terms of revenue collection, you wouldn&#8217;t want to just focus on the ordinary income rate, because people who are wealthy have a rounding error of ordinary income.&#8221;
He continued: &#8220;They have income that just is the value of their stock, which if they don&#8217;t sell it, it doesn&#8217;t show up as income at all, or if it shows up, it shows over in the capital gains side. So the ability of hedge fund people, various people &#8212; they aren&#8217;t paying that ordinary income rate.&#8221;
&#8220;The one thing that never gets much press &#8212; the IRS shows the statistics for the top 400 people of the highest income and the rate they pay. Anyway, you should look at that. It&#8217;s about a 20 percent rate, so it has nothing to do with the 39.6 marginal ordinary income rate. So it&#8217;s a misfocus. If you focus on that, you&#8217;re missing the picture.&#8221;
The Microsoft co-founder went on to say that the tax plans proposed by the likes of Ocasio-Cortez would have a negative effect by creating tax dodging schemes, causing &#8220;income to show up in other countries and things.&#8221; Though Gates does propose a &#8220;more progressive&#8221; tax rate, he thinks it should not stifle income generation.
&#8220;We can be more progressive without really threatening income generation &#8212; what you have left to decide how to spread around,&#8221; Gates said.
The billionaire&#8217;s condemnation of Ocasio-Cortez follows several other establishment-oriented Democrtic figures who have begun distancing themselves from her democratic socialism. According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrats-establisment-1093728">Politico</a>, several Democratic lawmakers have been working to rein her in.
&#8220;Some lawmakers with ties to Ocasio-Cortez are hoping to coax her into using her star power to unite Democrats and turn her fire on Republicans,&#8221; reports Politico. &#8220;Others simultaneously warn Ocasio-Cortez is destined for a lonely, ineffectual career in Congress if she continues to treat her own party as the enemy.&#8221;
&#8220;Incumbent Democrats are most annoyed by Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s threat to back primary opponents against members of their ranks she deems too moderate,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;But their frustration goes beyond that: Democratic leaders are upset that she railed against their new set of House rules on Twitter the first week of the new Congress. Rank and file are peeved that there&#8217;s a grassroots movement to try to win her a top committee post they feel she doesn&#8217;t deserve.&#8221;

Even Bill Gates Is Fed Up With Ocasio-Cortez: She’s ‘Missing The Picture’

The woke Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates, are focused on pushing population control on Africa.
According to <a href="https://allafrica.com/stories/201811150076.html">All Africa</a>, the Gates family announced at an international family planning conference in Rwanda that they will be donating $18 million to &#8220;family planning programs&#8221; through the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
As noted by<a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/15/bill-gates-will-spend-18-million-pushing-population-control-on-africa/"> LifeNews</a>, Bill and Melinda Gates have earned for themselves a notorious reputation of &#8220;<a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2018/10/31/bill-gates-pushes-population-control-on-africa-instead-of-helping-with-clean-water-or-education/">pushing birth control on some of the world’s poorest countries</a> while their people cry for clean water, food and basic health care.&#8221; Much of the money that the Gates donate go to abortion providers like International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International. UNFPA has<a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/10/chinas-one-child-policy-and-unfpa-a-silent-but-deadly-partnership/"> also been linked to oppressive population control measures</a> in China, including <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/04/president-trump-defunds-unfpa-which-promotes-abortion-and-pushes-population-control-in-china/">forced sterilizations and abortions</a>.
All Africa reports that the UNFPA family planning program will direct supplies to countries like Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo. The stated goal: 120 million girls using contraception by 2020.
&#8220;Under the Ouagadougou Partnership, family planning efforts will be made with initiatives that enable 120 million more women and girls to use contraceptives by 2020 and accelerate progress in the use of family planning services in targeted countries,&#8221; reports All Africa.
The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/nov/13/uk-gives-landmark-200m-to-improve-contraceptive-access-in-africa-and-asia">reports</a>, however, that family planning goals have not been met in recent years; the leaders hope to change that with this latest initiative.
<blockquote>According to FP2020, an estimated 317 million women and girls in the world’s poorest countries are now using a modern form of contraception, 46 million more than in 2012.
However, in its report published this week, it admitted the figure was way short of its target to reach an extra 120 million women in 69 target countries by 2020.</blockquote>
The Gates family have been open about their desired plan for population control. In <a href="https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/10/31/every-woman-should-have-access-to-contraceptives-bill-gates_c1842614">an interview last month</a>, the billionaire said it was key to &#8220;ending poverty and fighting inequality.&#8221;
&#8220;The biggest thing is the modern tools of contraception,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are implants, injections, IUD. And, obviously, if you have those things available, then people are more in control of being able to space their children.&#8221;
In June, Melinda Gates<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31918/melinda-gates-upset-president-trump-defunded-paul-bois"> blasted the Trump administration</a> for defunding the International Planned Parenthood by implementing <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2017/01/23/president-donald-trump-signs-executive-order-to-defund-international-planned-parenthood/">the Mexico City Policy</a> shortly after taking office, effectively stripping $100 million from the abortion giant.
Speaking to Britain&#8217;s Today Programme, Melinda Gates called the administration&#8217;s Mexico City Policy &#8220;very troubling&#8221; and criticized its broad expansion, which effectively forced &#8220;reproductive health organizations have to say, even if you’re not receiving government funding for abortions, you won’t even do these [abortions] in your clinic with funding, say, from the U.K. or from France.&#8221;
&#8220;He [Trump] is proposing not funding family planning and that is a huge problem,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If you believe in women, you fund family planning and so I’m counting on Congress in the U.S. to hold up U.S. funding on family planning.&#8221;

Bill Gates Is Spending $18 Million On Population Control In Africa

Abortion

Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, wishes President Trump had allowed International Planned Parenthood to continue its murderous agenda across the globe instead of defunding it.
Keeping true to his pro-life promises, President Trump implemented <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2017/01/23/president-donald-trump-signs-executive-order-to-defund-international-planned-parenthood/">the Mexico City Policy</a> shortly after taking office. Approximately $100 million was stripped from International Planned Parenthood thanks to the President&#8217;s signature, which will save countless lives from abortions.
Melinda Gates <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/News/world/americas/melinda-gates-donald-trump-anti-abortion-policy-mexico-city-women-rights-contraception-charity-a7834736.html">feels President Trump made a huge mistake</a>.
Speaking to Britain&#8217;s Today Programme, Melinda Gates called the administration&#8217;s Mexico City Policy &#8220;very troubling&#8221; and criticized its broad expansion, which effectively forced &#8220;reproductive health organizations have to say, even if you&#8217;re not receiving government funding for abortions, you won&#8217;t even do these [abortions] in your clinic with funding, say, from the UK or from France.&#8221;
&#8220;He [Trump] is proposing not funding family planning and that is a huge problem,&#8221; she said.
Melinda Gates even characterized the policy as being anti-woman. &#8220;If you believe in women, you fund family planning and so I&#8217;m counting on Congress in the U.S. to hold up U.S. funding on family planning,&#8221; she said.
Melinda Gates will be in London hosting an international summit on family planning. Donors are expected to raise more than $2.5 billion to support their population control initiatives.
According to <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2018/06/15/melinda-gates-slams-president-trump-for-defunding-international-planned-parenthood/">LifeNews</a>, the International Planned Parenthood Federation &#8220;<a href="http://link.email.dynect.net/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=WAA0HYy4enWklLGLVOCoftvRiKxkwcx7028A%2BNZlWSzSEaUD3cyAXwNBChe1edoS%2BMWasyVCDxYds4t2JHjOI81mcwotHOmlUsp5dcD7o8HeU9Qn%2FFf0VA%3D%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ippf.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2017-07%2FIPPF%2520Annual%2520Performance%2520Report%25202016.pdf&amp;I=20180208003253.00000023271c%40mail6-33-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVhN2I5YTMyODZjNGE1NGZmYzFmN2JiZjs%3D&amp;S=EcIIhTm3Tyuh1f6QMQn3fPPbe9XJvp4ODqZVtq_MfII" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">performed</a> more than 1 million abortions in 2016, an increase of 13.5 percent over 2015, and <a href="http://link.email.dynect.net/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=WAA0HYy4enWklLGLVOCoftvRiKxkwcx7028A%2BNZlWSzSEaUD3cyAXwNBChe1edoS%2BMWasyVCDxYds4t2JHjOI81mcwotHOmlUsp5dcD7o8HeU9Qn%2FFf0VA%3D%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ippf.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2017-06%2FFinancialReport_2016.pdf&amp;I=20180208003253.00000023271c%40mail6-33-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVhN2I5YTMyODZjNGE1NGZmYzFmN2JiZjs%3D&amp;S=AZwRb8b6SG8zBPZ_DQodtrmb-oTCBomR64VUOq8V5uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">received</a> more than $27 million in U.S. government grants in 2015-2016 under pro-abortion President Barack Obama.&#8221;

Melinda Gates Upset President Trump Defunded International Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood

Coming soon to a store near you. Or airport. Or hotel. Or supermarket.
Korean tech giant LG on Thursday announced that it would produce new robots intended to take over many jobs in the service industry that now employ actual people. Already, massive food corporations like MacDonald&#8217;s are employing computerized kiosks instead of workers to take orders, but soon the robots will be everywhere.
&#8220;There have long been predictions that advances in artificial intelligence and automation could end up eliminating millions of jobs over time, and tech companies have been testing robots to carry out a variety of tasks &#8212; from working in a pizza parlor to making deliveries that could greatly affect the services industry in the future,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/south-koreas-lg-electronics-to-introduce-new-robots-at-ces-2018.html">CNBC</a> reported.
LG plans to show off three new &#8220;concept robots&#8221; at a global consumer electronics show in Las Vegas next week. The robots could be deployed to supermarkets, hotels and airports, although a company spokesman said the robots are &#8220;a long way from ready to go public.&#8221;
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The first one is a server robot that can deliver food and drinks to customers at hotels and airport lounges. It can essentially replace the work done by the waitstaff and be able to do it around the clock.
Second is a porter robot that can handle check-in and check-out services at hotels and carry luggage to rooms. The hotel industry is already experimenting with replacing humans with machines. For example, there are hotels in Japan that are staffed by robots.
Finally, LG&#8217;s third new robot is made to work with customers at a supermarket, telling them the price of products and then guiding them through the aisles.
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As much as 50% of the worldwide workforce is employed in the service industry. A November report by McKinsey &amp; Company said that as many as 800 million workers worldwide could be replaced at work by robots by 2030. In addition, 12% of jobs globally are transporting goods, which means millions will be out of work when self-driving vehicles are perfected.
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, says the future looks bleak.
&#8220;There certainly will be job disruption. Because what&#8217;s going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. &#8230; I mean all of us,&#8221; Musk said in July.
&#8220;Transport will be one of the first to go fully autonomous. But when I say everything &#8212; the robots will be able to do everything, bar nothing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am not sure exactly what to do about this. This is really the scariest problem to me, I will tell you.&#8221;
Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, meanwhile, says the robots that take human jobs should pay taxes.
&#8220;Certainly there will be taxes that relate to automation,&#8221; he said in July. &#8220;Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you&#8217;d think that we&#8217;d tax the robot at a similar level.&#8221;
Musk, Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg all believe governments worldwide will one day have to establish &#8220;universal basic income,&#8221; a program that would give all citizens a set amount of taxpayer money, regardless of whether they have jobs.
&#8220;I think we&#8217;ll end up doing universal basic income,&#8221; Musk told a crowd at the World Government Summit in Dubai in February. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be necessary.&#8221;

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What happened to Bill Gates?
Last year Gates <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFk-F6ds8Gw">spoke to the BBC</a>, and when the interviewer noted that the refugee crisis &#8220;could not be solved by money alone,&#8221; Gates eventually responded:
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The U.S. should set a better example by taking more refugees in. We should have the capacity, even though it&#8217;s not easy. I think Germany and Sweden are to be congratulated for being more of an &#8216;open door&#8217; approach on this thing. You know, the total number of refugees is not like world record; the political sensitivity about refugees and the tightness of the budgets is what&#8217;s making this one particularly acute.
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But <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/825265/bill-gates-migrants-borders-europe-eu-brussels-germany">now</a> &#8230; 
Gates is saying that instead of opening the European Union borders, Brussels should send more foreign aid. He argued, &#8220;On the one hand you want to demonstrate generosity and take in refugees, but the more generous you are, the more word gets around about this &#8212; which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa &#8230; [Germany cannot] take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe.&#8221;
Gates added that the EU must make it &#8220;more difficult for Africans to reach the continent via the current transit routes&#8221; while relieving &#8220;enormous pressure&#8221; by sending foreign aid. He lauded German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling it &#8220;phenomenal&#8221; that Germany is spending 0.7% of the country&#8217;s GDP on foreign aid.

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Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, with a <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/business/richest-people-in-the-world-bloomberg-bill-gates-warren-buffett-mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-koch-brothers-2878601/">net worth</a> of roughly $86 billion, often hailed as a genius, had a rather <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/17/bill-gates-job-stealing-robots-should-pay-income-taxes.html">less brilliant idea</a> he proposed to fix the ailing U.S. economy: have robots pay income taxes.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nccryZOcrUg">Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney</a>, Gates posited, &#8220;If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d tax the robot at a similar level.&#8221; He added, &#8220;What the world wants is to take this opportunity to make all the goods and services we have today and free up labor &#8211; let us do a better job of reaching out to the elderly, having smaller class side, helping kids with special needs . . . &#8220;All of those are things where human empathy and understanding are still very unique, and we still deal with an immense shortage of people to help out there.&#8221;
The Microsoft co-founder opined, &#8220;You can&#8217;t just give up that income tax. Some of it can come on the profits that are generated by the labor-saving efficiency there. Some of it can come directly from some type of robot tax.&#8221;
This is the height of hypocrisy. The man who made more money off of selling higher levels of technology to the masses is suggesting we punish employers for using technology to aid their businesses and save money?
What Gates is suggesting is simply a tariff on robots.
How would Gates feel if we taxed him for every Microsoft product that made him such a wealthy man?

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