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  As usual Alexander you seem to be conflating a number of conflicting positions into one
  
  All business people wish for their businesses to be successful and to grow, through this success and growth they are able to reward themselves for the risk they took at the start by paying themselves a wage and perhaps dividends and also to provide gainful employment for others. Of course sometimes those wishes remain unfulfilled and business fails, for most their markets mature and business growth hits a plateau but does very nicely and very occasionaly another Microsoft or Apple is born. The aspiration to be in that last category is not often met but is still what drives most businesses forward.
  
  Yes Bill Gates has provided his children with the best education that can be bought in the US and it is true that he has put the vast majority of his wealth into his and his wife's charitable foundation and it is also true that his children will not inherit that wealth - quite what any of that has to do with Barry's arguments is beyond me. You also correctly state that he believes the "super rich" should pay more tax - what you ignore is he is talking about the USA where these people pay less tax than their maids do.

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