“Bezos said villainising billionaires is the wrong approach to solving fiscal problems”
Let me stop you right there… I don’t give a fuck. You’re still a villain in my eyes. No matter how much horse shit you spew.
rappiesunamierda on
You know Mamdani and his team loved that Bezos quote. Gifted some fresh material to work with!
Solonohioperson on
Oh well. Tax him anyway and let’s find out!
themattboard on
Mom who wants to eat all the ice cream tells her child its spicy
MalevolentTapir on
I don’t care if it doesn’t help anyone, if its just thrown in a giant pit and burned or something, I don’t want these tech bros buying foreign governments, buying up all the media, bribing every politician in the country anymore.
jarious on
Billionaires should fund universal basic income ,and pay fair taxes. And stay the fuck away from politics
DeuceGnarly on
1) Schools have budgets, and taxes fund those budgets. Him paying his fucking taxes will help teachers.
2) He said “if we ran Amazon like NYC runs schools, it’d take six weeks to deliver a package.” No one asked, you botoxed goddamned asshole. If you’d been elected to run anything, people would care. No one elected him to run shit, so stuff it. Second, people don’t put their kids in school to get the fastest, lowest effort cheap garbage product they can get. They’re looking for quality – something you don’t fucking overnight from Amazon.
The oligarchs need to pay their fucking taxes.
eskimospy212 on
I like how in the same conversation he said the bottom half only pay 3% of taxes (false) but also raising taxes on the rich won’t help.
If they pay 97% of the taxes it sure sounds like raising their taxes would help!
Bezos is either stupid, a liar, or both.
Lumpy-Ad7805 on
How would Bezos know? It’s known he paid $0 in federal tax from 2007 to 2011.
We should try taxing him and all find out together if it helps.
Historical_Bend_2629 on
Bezos has lost his way. He forgets what made him unimaginably rich. He is no longer convenient when he bends and co-opts media and politics.
Over_Use_8474 on
Well Bezos is not going use his wealth to help improve the economy for the lower classes. Amazon is at the forefront in terms of replacing workers through ai and overseas.
Tax them all
BigManWAGun on
Bet
CrimsonHeretic on
If you spent $100,000 per day, it would take 27 years to hit $1 billion total.
Bezos has multiple billions of dollars.
MadAstrid on
I mean, Bezos has a point that, under this administration, if he paid the same tax rate as teachers do that money definitely would not go to teachers or help them.
He should, though, if he wants to prove his point, take the amount of money that he would have to pay in taxes if he paid the same rate teachers do and give that money directly to teachers and see if that helps them or not.
WHSRWizard on
Maybe not, but I’m willing to give it a shot
steepleton on
“Bezos said villainising billionaires is the wrong approach to solving fiscal problems “
I say we give it a shot
galloway188 on
This guy has more money than any of us can make in a second.
Tax the rich!
TheJan1tor on
Changing the Amount we tax the rich won’t change anything.
Changing HOW we tax the rich will.
ImoteKhan on
A man paying so little in tax telling others he isn’t the problem is wild. How does anyone believe the horses ass when it’s says no manure comes out this end…
Be-skeptical on
How about we try it and see what happens.
NotBestButPrettyGood on
Billionaires are only villainized because they don’t pay their fair share.
Crommach on
I mean hell, we only built the national highway system, electrified the poorest parts of the nation after the Depression and set up a nationwide communications network, greatly expanded public education, *went to the fucking Moon*, and more the last time we actually taxed the wealthy and corporations at a reasonable amount. And other nations are *still* funding modern infrastructure and social programs with similar taxation.
But sure, Jeff. It wouldn’t possibly work again here, and you’re just telling us out of the goodness of your heart rather than obvious self-interest.
Sure-Perception-2030 on
The faux-populism of saying ‘the bottom half should pay 0% in taxes’ is an incredibly slick distraction technique. Notice how Bezos frames the entire debate around *income* taxes? He takes a token W-2 salary, meaning his actual income tax bill is negligible compared to his actual net worth. He doesn’t want to talk about capital gains taxes, a wealth tax, closing corporate loopholes, or stopping the ‘buy, borrow, die’ strategy that allows the ultra-wealthy to avoid paying their fair share entirely. He’s deliberately pitting the working class against the middle class to keep the focus entirely off his own asset portfolio.
squeamishfun on
Tax him anyway.
mademeunlurk on
They should put a big ass local tax on his ass specifically and then take the money and directly hand it to a bunch of teachers.
Anteater4746 on
why don’t we test it and find out? let’s go for gusto just to be safe, billionaires can pay a flat 25% tax
alloutofchewingum on
Can’t hurt to try
devllen05 on
These greedy pieces of shit literally have near-infinite cash and they’re still worried about losing a small fraction of it.
exportedaussie on
This is like rats against pest control. What else is someone so rich and who gives so little care for anyone else going to say?
StevePalpatine on
We spent decades being jerked around by politicians all in on people like Bezos with deficits and austerity meant to cut those deficits at the expense of working class people.
Mamdani comes in and fixes it in a few months by going in the other direction. I think I’m done with hearing about Bezos’s ideas on how the country should be governed.
MrMikeJJ on
Well they have tried not taxing them and all that happened is they got massively richer. Time to try something else.
waffle299 on
Bezos is misrepresenting how taxes work to force you to pay his share.
Taxes are a zero sum game. If he doesn’t pay what he is responsible for, either you pay for it with your taxes, or you and your children pay for it with overcrowded schools.
PrayToTheAI on
Who fucking cares what he thinks? We have scientific proof it works, he has his own “opinions”.
Odd_Collection7431 on
i’m no economist, but i’m not gonna trust the guy hoarding all the money about whether guys should hoard money.
JimmayDoad on
Let’s try it for a bit so we can rule that out!
darksidemojo on
So having more money doesn’t fix anything? Good Jeff then you won’t mind paying more in taxes.
Shiplord13 on
Let’s tax him and his billionaire buddies to see, because trusting the word of billionaire who has a habit of lying out of self-interest isn’t advisable.
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“Bezos said villainising billionaires is the wrong approach to solving fiscal problems”
Let me stop you right there… I don’t give a fuck. You’re still a villain in my eyes. No matter how much horse shit you spew.
You know Mamdani and his team loved that Bezos quote. Gifted some fresh material to work with!
Oh well. Tax him anyway and let’s find out!
Mom who wants to eat all the ice cream tells her child its spicy
I don’t care if it doesn’t help anyone, if its just thrown in a giant pit and burned or something, I don’t want these tech bros buying foreign governments, buying up all the media, bribing every politician in the country anymore.
Billionaires should fund universal basic income ,and pay fair taxes. And stay the fuck away from politics
1) Schools have budgets, and taxes fund those budgets. Him paying his fucking taxes will help teachers.
2) He said “if we ran Amazon like NYC runs schools, it’d take six weeks to deliver a package.” No one asked, you botoxed goddamned asshole. If you’d been elected to run anything, people would care. No one elected him to run shit, so stuff it. Second, people don’t put their kids in school to get the fastest, lowest effort cheap garbage product they can get. They’re looking for quality – something you don’t fucking overnight from Amazon.
The oligarchs need to pay their fucking taxes.
I like how in the same conversation he said the bottom half only pay 3% of taxes (false) but also raising taxes on the rich won’t help.
If they pay 97% of the taxes it sure sounds like raising their taxes would help!
Bezos is either stupid, a liar, or both.
How would Bezos know? It’s known he paid $0 in federal tax from 2007 to 2011.
We should try taxing him and all find out together if it helps.
Bezos has lost his way. He forgets what made him unimaginably rich. He is no longer convenient when he bends and co-opts media and politics.
Well Bezos is not going use his wealth to help improve the economy for the lower classes. Amazon is at the forefront in terms of replacing workers through ai and overseas.
Tax them all
Bet
If you spent $100,000 per day, it would take 27 years to hit $1 billion total.
Bezos has multiple billions of dollars.
I mean, Bezos has a point that, under this administration, if he paid the same tax rate as teachers do that money definitely would not go to teachers or help them.
He should, though, if he wants to prove his point, take the amount of money that he would have to pay in taxes if he paid the same rate teachers do and give that money directly to teachers and see if that helps them or not.
Maybe not, but I’m willing to give it a shot
“Bezos said villainising billionaires is the wrong approach to solving fiscal problems “
I say we give it a shot
This guy has more money than any of us can make in a second.
Tax the rich!
Changing the Amount we tax the rich won’t change anything.
Changing HOW we tax the rich will.
A man paying so little in tax telling others he isn’t the problem is wild. How does anyone believe the horses ass when it’s says no manure comes out this end…
How about we try it and see what happens.
Billionaires are only villainized because they don’t pay their fair share.
I mean hell, we only built the national highway system, electrified the poorest parts of the nation after the Depression and set up a nationwide communications network, greatly expanded public education, *went to the fucking Moon*, and more the last time we actually taxed the wealthy and corporations at a reasonable amount. And other nations are *still* funding modern infrastructure and social programs with similar taxation.
But sure, Jeff. It wouldn’t possibly work again here, and you’re just telling us out of the goodness of your heart rather than obvious self-interest.
The faux-populism of saying ‘the bottom half should pay 0% in taxes’ is an incredibly slick distraction technique. Notice how Bezos frames the entire debate around *income* taxes? He takes a token W-2 salary, meaning his actual income tax bill is negligible compared to his actual net worth. He doesn’t want to talk about capital gains taxes, a wealth tax, closing corporate loopholes, or stopping the ‘buy, borrow, die’ strategy that allows the ultra-wealthy to avoid paying their fair share entirely. He’s deliberately pitting the working class against the middle class to keep the focus entirely off his own asset portfolio.
Tax him anyway.
They should put a big ass local tax on his ass specifically and then take the money and directly hand it to a bunch of teachers.
why don’t we test it and find out? let’s go for gusto just to be safe, billionaires can pay a flat 25% tax
Can’t hurt to try
These greedy pieces of shit literally have near-infinite cash and they’re still worried about losing a small fraction of it.
This is like rats against pest control. What else is someone so rich and who gives so little care for anyone else going to say?
We spent decades being jerked around by politicians all in on people like Bezos with deficits and austerity meant to cut those deficits at the expense of working class people.
Mamdani comes in and fixes it in a few months by going in the other direction. I think I’m done with hearing about Bezos’s ideas on how the country should be governed.
Well they have tried not taxing them and all that happened is they got massively richer. Time to try something else.
Bezos is misrepresenting how taxes work to force you to pay his share.
Taxes are a zero sum game. If he doesn’t pay what he is responsible for, either you pay for it with your taxes, or you and your children pay for it with overcrowded schools.
Who fucking cares what he thinks? We have scientific proof it works, he has his own “opinions”.
i’m no economist, but i’m not gonna trust the guy hoarding all the money about whether guys should hoard money.
Let’s try it for a bit so we can rule that out!
So having more money doesn’t fix anything? Good Jeff then you won’t mind paying more in taxes.
Let’s tax him and his billionaire buddies to see, because trusting the word of billionaire who has a habit of lying out of self-interest isn’t advisable.