繳稅太少比爾蓋茨！納稅百億美金卻嫌少，稱自己不配有這麼多錢
Bill Gates says he should pay higher taxes, doesn"t "deserve" his fortune
比爾?蓋茨表示他應該繳納更高的稅，這與他的財富「不相稱」
素材來源：福克斯新聞 翻譯：世界播
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, one of the world』s richest men, once again claimed he does not pay enough in taxes.
世界上最富有的人之一、微軟聯合創始人比爾?蓋茨再次聲稱，他繳納的稅款不夠。
During an interview with the Daily Mail, the 63 year-old business man said that while he has paid more than $10 billion in taxes, he 「should have paid more.」
在接受《每日郵報》採訪時，這位63歲的商人表示，儘管他已經繳納了100多億美元的稅款，但他「應該繳納得更多」。
「I more than followed the law but I think things should be more progressive,」 he said.
他說：「我不僅僅是在遵守法律，我認為事情應該更進步」。
Gates, who is worth an estimated $96.8 billion, also said he does not 「deserve」 his fortune.
身價968億美元的蓋茨還表示，他 「不配」擁有這麼多財富。
「Nobody does,」 he said. 「It has come through timing, luck, and through people I worked with. I certainly worked hard and I think software has been a beneficial thing, but I benefited from a structure too.」
「沒人知道」，他說：「這些財富來自時機、運氣以及與我共事的人。我確實努力工作了，我認為軟體可以讓人受益，從結構上來看，我也受益於此」。
When it comes to the future of that fortune, Gates believes that giving it to his children wouldn』t be 「good for them or good for society.」 He does plan to give to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, however, which helps fight disease and poverty in other countries.
當談到這筆財富的未來時，蓋茨認為把它留給他的孩子們「對他們沒有好處，而且對社會而言，這也不是一件好事」。不過，他確實計劃向比爾及梅琳達?蓋茨基金會捐款，該基金會幫助其他國家抗擊疾病和貧困。
Gates said he was in favor of raising the inheritance tax – a sentiment he echoed during a recent podcast interview with the Verge, during which he also deemed Democrats calls for higher income tax rates a 「misfocus.」
蓋茨表示，他贊成提高遺產稅。他最近在接受the Verge網站的播客採訪時也表達了同樣的觀點。他還認為，民主黨人呼籲提高所得稅是一種「誤導」。
「You finally have some politicians who are so extreme that I』d say, 『No, that』s even beyond,』」 Gates told the Verge. 「You do start to create tax dodging and disincentives, and an incentive to have the income show up in other countries and things.」
「終於有了一些極端的政客，我會說，『不，這甚至超出了極限。』」蓋茨告訴the Verge:「你確實開始製造逃稅和抑制因素，以及讓收入出現在其他國家和事情上的動機。」
The billionaire businessman, however, does believe there are ways to make the current tax code more progressive.
然而，這位億萬富商確實相信，有辦法讓現行稅法更具累進性。
Some of those ways include more progressive policies regarding not only the estate tax, but also the tax on capital, or reforming FICA and Social Security taxes.
其中一些方法包括，不僅在遺產稅方面，而且在資本稅方面採取更加累進的政策，或者改革FICA和社會保障稅。
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders recently released a proposal to expand the estate tax to a rate of 77 percent for those passing on assets in excess of $1 billion.
佛蒙特州獨立參議員伯尼?桑德斯最近提出一項提案，將遺產稅稅率提高到77%，適用於那些轉移資產超過10億美元的人。
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