Have been disproportionately rewarded for the work I’ve done, says Bill Gates

“I think the rich should pay more than they currently do, and that includes Melinda and me,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in his year-end blog published on December 30.

While we were making plans for New Year's eve, Gates was thinking about "how we can make our tax system fairer". Gates has been pushing for fairer tax system for years.

"It was nearly two decades ago that my dad and I started calling for an increase in the federal estate tax and for an estate tax in our home state of Washington, which has the most regressive tax system in the country," wrote Gates in his blog.