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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Billionaire Bill Ackman has an idea for getting the ultra-wealthy to finally pay a fair share of taxes

Hedge fund speculator Bill Ackman (Credit: Patrick T. Fallon—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Acknowledging the growing number of Americans fed up with yawning income inequality, billionaire investor Bill Ackman has come up with a way to get the ultrawealthy to pay their fair share. 

The founder of Pershing Square Capital Management suggested on Thursday a tailored approach to ensure people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos shoulder more of the burden, arguing against the blunt instrument of a proposed federal tax levied on unrealized capital gains.

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