Jeff Bezos tells CNBC doubling his taxes wouldn't help 'teacher in Queens'

Raoul Meyer398

You know what could help that teacher in Queens, Jeff? If you paid the pied-a-terre tax on you $100 million penthouse on Fifth Avenue.

Jack Scrambo288

Quadruple it then. How many multiples of your current tax liability should we take Jeff? I’m thinking in orders of magnitude

Polly Curley182

Probably because he's paying 2/3 of 7/8 of the square root of fuck all in tax. But it would be fun to watch him pay at the base rate of the US tax system.

Boulder Voter Rob114

Yeah, but a WEALTH tax would. Americans understand having their WEALTH taxed every year. It's what happens with our only big asset, if we're lucky, our home. We know what he's worth. Tax that! If he disagrees with Forbes about his assets, he can file a fecking return!

blueduck 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽114

Of course… that fucking clown Bozos pays far less than the teacher in Queens. Tax the MFer by the same tax rate WE all pay, and I fucking GUARANTEE it will be life changing for many. Fuck these oligarch PIGS

Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋99

How about we triple or quadruple your taxes you greedy motherfucker? Then you can start paying your workers a living wage & give them decent hours & let them join unions?* Let's see if that will help US #FUJeffBezos *& maybe they will not have to pee in bottles

JD Pirtle74

There were many years Bezos paid zero federal income tax, like 2007 and 2011, so yeah he's right 2 x 0 = 0. Yet the average American will pay 1/3 of all of their income in taxes in their lifetime. Imagine what we could do for public schooling if we even taxed Bezos at 20%.

Contingency Fee59

I'm fine with a larger multiplier

Angele55

At this point, who this MF’s taxes support is irrelevant. Creep Bezos has broken the laws of this country in numerous ways, fleecing every single one of us. He MUST pay his taxes. I absolutely can’t stand this man & his plastic trollop. #BoycottAmazon

tzigan.bsky.social35

Senator Elizabeth Warren would destroy this ass one on one.

AuntieU33

We need to tax Bezos, Musk, Thiel and bankers at 90% rate. They need to backpay for their tax avoidance for decades.

Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺28

Sure, since two times zero is zero.

I'm Suzi Poppins, y'all!27

Better take 90% of your money then.

Frank Grimes.27

Well played, Jeff. If you pay 0 % taxes and you double that you are still paying 0%.

Mauro23

There should be at least be a 10% penalty assessed against an oligarch's total wealth every time one of them uses the phrase, "I promise you."

Kas21

I’ve been reading his tax rate is less than 1% while the average worker pays nearly 15%. So who knows, he may be correct since he’s paying so little in taxes it may not make any difference if he pays double. But if he paid what we pay and his company paid its fair share it would make a difference.

Sage21

How would we know if we haven't tried? Oh wait, we did. Prior to the 1980s, tax rates on the obscenely rich were a lot higher, and our social safety net was a lot better

StressArt Studio18

He doesn't pay any taxes, so 0 x 2 is still 0.

🍀McMomma🍀17

These answers are similar to Trump's talk of "a small loan of a million dollars". These people are detached from reality because they can afford to be.

𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕘 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕤17

Screw double on what he already pays. He should pay 90%, as we did post-WW2. Anyone worth BILLIONS should pay 90% tax on income, wealth, capital gains, etc. They can afford to, and it doesn't hurt their long-term standings at all.

WuzntMe14

He's probably telling the truth. His personal taxes are probably about the same as the $750.00 Taco paid.

Full Bird Private14

Tax billionaires until they are multi-millionaires. Fuck him and his ilk.

Gentlewoman Farmer14

He's right. 2 times zero is zero.

Regina DeTodos13

Bezos effective tax rate - 1% Amazon effective tax rate - 1.5% Average American tax rate - 14.5% A person whose net worth is +/- 250billion should not be paying "billions in taxes", he should be paying TENS of billions every year. He should not have a lower tax rate than a teacher.

Elisa💙Zelensky is a Hero13

Because zero x2 is still zero?

PC Sherry🦋12

Hmmmmm. Bezos pays nothing in taxes, so doubling that is, let’s see… STILL NOTHING.

I'm Beth12

We need to be taxing the unearned income of these billionaires. Actual earned income is nearly zero. All of their wealth comes from their money making money. Tax the shit out of that.

Doremus Jessup12

Well Jeff, that teacher in Queens pays 14x % more of their income in taxes than you do! So yeah, double is not enough. Let’s start by 14x-ing it.

a custodian of regular feelings12

let’s try it and see

Currently Engaged in Racceteering12

He's right, 0 x 2 = 0 But now if we had a 99 or 100% tax on every dollar over 1 billion, that'll help a lot of people

Saturated11

Why do we tolerate this shit?

Scott Ervin11

OK, well … part of the problem is that you aren’t currently paying your fair share. So, first … let’s get you to pay your fair share. THEN double THAT amount. I guarantee it will help that teacher in Queens.

Richard J Laya11

So why does anyone pay anything, because individually no one’s payment matters?

EU Paul10

Instead of saying double his taxes, state a reasonable billionaire tax rate, like 45% on his earnings from salary and bonuses, and a 30% capital gains tax on his share investments. That might make Bezos wince.

wkb travels10

Ok prove it for 3 years and we will see. Bezos is a fucking monster.

Here We Armbar Nazis 💪🏻10

He’s not wrong. 2x zero is still zero and not going to help. But eliminating the tax avoidance schemes he and the super rich use and taxing their wealth would absolutely generate enough revenue to increase teacher pay, social programs, and other benefits for normal Americans. #TaxTheRich

Admiral Benghazi10

One way to find out

Mark Tiberi10

Last I checked he pays no taxes at all.

mossyswpdx.bsky.social10

Then we'll raise them until it does.

WokeMooseAndSquirrel🌊🫏10

He is telling the truth. 2 * 0 is still 0.

Audrey “The only thing more powerful than hate is love!”9

I promise you we want to do more than double the taxes you pay!

Andy “Fucking Bitch” Dashiell ❤️🌈🖖🏔️9

So he’s effectively saying his current taxes are waaaaaaaay too low. Ok, we can address that.

Professor Xǐ 喜9

Jeff Bezos is correct that taxing billionaires is not going to fix the problem because the problem is an economic system that lets the idle rich steal our labor. We already tried taxing the rich in the 30s and they spent the next 80 years clawing back everything. We need socialism now

John Payant9

We don’t want his taxes to double. We want him and his ilk to pay their fair share, which I would say is a helluva lot more than double what he currently pays.

Underwhelmed9

Ok, then lets quintuple them. Still won't matter? Let's start talking orders of magnitude then.

BonBon🤌9

Let us worry about that Jeff.

Gnomez9

THATS BECAUSE HE BARELY PAYS ANY

Will9

How about make him pay his workers properly and then after that make his companies pay the same amount of tax (rate) that normal people and small businesses pay? And then we can worry about his personal wealth too (nobody should be able to spend millions bribing the government)

99fgh.bsky.social9

Let's try it and see! Better yet increase his taxes by ten times or 100 times!

Islais_cm💙🇵🇷✊🏽✊🏿🟧🌈🐈‍⬛💃🏾9

So he is aware that we teachers are demanding to tax the rich.😠 He could probably gain more customers if he heads a campaign to tax the rich at a much higher rate than they are being taxed now. (…because yes, they can afford it!)

michaeljtowle.bsky.social9

Don't tax me. Don't tax thee. Tax that guy behind the tree.

Mick the Minotaur8

Then let’s quadruple them, Jeff

Eric Marts8

How about we do the doubling of your taxes and then do an assessment, rocket man hobbyist? The biggest scam in the world is republicans (and corporate democrats) convincing the mass majority that low tax rates on the wealthy will lead to higher employment and wages for workers. What utter BS.

Wheelyam8

To defend the oligarchy tech-bro arrogance that optimizing a government by the people, for the people doesn’t work because he says so with an asinine, demeaning example backed by no empirical evidence other than rich douche bravado.

Gumbo8

What’s zero times two again?

Actually I do think an overwhelming sense of fairness in tax and affordability would effect that teacher

Zeb Ulon7

cool. now we have an interesting hypothesis. lets move onto the experiment phase and figure out if it holds up.

Zen Zinnia7

doubling $0 is still $0.

graemeart.bsky.social7

Your employee's wages are too low. Your employees taxes are too high. Your taxes are zero. Your income is astronomical. When our Congress is more grown up, things will change. For now...maybe another no week of NO Amazon.

Which Witch R U 🏳️‍🌈7

We don’t want to double it. Because you basically pay nothing. We want to tax you the same we get taxed…like 20-25%…which could literally end hunger, give us universal healthcare and more, and you wouldn’t even miss it. You didn’t earn that money. Your employees, the working class, did.

@gretagroots7

Bezos, Musk etc all have limitless greed, pathological money hoarders, psychopaths really

SubAtomic7

These people are the cancer of society. #Abolishbillionaires

nancyfarm.bsky.social7

Double what? Zero? 0x0=0 We know Bozos, you are not “gonna” help. Never will.

Mlip7

Jeff Bezos pays less than 2% effective rate. I say raise it by 500%

Jeff 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸7

Bezos is partially right. Merely doubling someone like his annual taxes doesn't do shit. What needs to happen is for people to attack his wealth hoarding. Of course billions don't mean anything to you when your net worth can go up $5B in a single day. Attacking the wealth hoarding is the prize.

Kurt Weldon7

"...because I'll make sure of that."

Flannagan the Red 🔞7

here's a novel concept: pay your fucking workers. btw, the unspoken second step of bozo's suggestion is that non-taxpaying citizens lose the right to vote.

gmachancla.bsky.social6

The cynicism is galactic. So is the obtuseness.

valjswisher.bsky.social6

Let’s do it and see what happens!

SF Guy who #$@!% #$@!% & commits wyt #$@!%6

He’s making a joke because these assholes pay almost nothing in federal taxes. Double of nothing is nothing. What a POS. Let’s take 90% of everthing above 20 million, and see how they like it! Normalize a top tax bracket of 90%. Party like it’s 1950!

Helioscrivener6

I fucking hate him and his silicone girlfriend

bxbx4.bsky.social6

They doth protest WAY too much

Ian B. Bautista6

Don't take THAT bait - doubling won't do. He (and Amazon too) are paying at a pitifully low tax rate. Let's make his, his fellow billionaires', and all corporations' tax rates equitable and commensurate with the drain they are on society, natural resources, and the wellbeing of their workforces.

Simon Tugwell 6

He's kinda right. If he pays close to zero through his tax avoidance schemes, then doubling isn't going to help anyone. We need to tax them properly so they can't worm out of it.

Don't Negotiate With Insurrectionists 6

Hey Jeff, lets do it and see if you are right otherwise you might just be a billionaire narcissist liar.

truckerjc.bsky.social6

So he just said that he's useless.

204uni.bsky.social6

Prove your point Jeff, pay up. #UnionizeAmazon

TspofCourage20256

Fairness. It’s about fairness. The rich get richer because of a rigged system isn’t a good thing for any country. Stop the GASLIT BS. Call Congress. Speak out. We the 99% are sick of being thrown under the bus. But we’re letting this happen at the same time. ENOUGH 5calls

nurseforlife.bsky.social6

How about we give it a try??

Jill schuler 🖇️ NEVER OBEY!!! 🐸6

Maybe just maybe the huge amount that we are paying to the military could be decreased?

David William Sheridan6

That’s because he pays fuck all.

T Max6

That's true. He doesn't pay enough in taxes for doubling to be meaningful.

mel1done.bsky.social5

Jeff should push for the Federal $15 minimum wage... if he really want to help... also lower child care and regulate the cost of housing.

are souls5

waiting for the jowl enlargening surgery to announce the poors don't understand their own problems

Emjayess5

"I'm rich so everything I think and say is really important and you can tell because I use declarative sentences to make my opinions sound like facts. *I learned this from Fox News "contributors."

Irie DC5

he's so full of it

jpjb.bsky.social5

Then triple or quadruple the fucking taxes he pays!

marebears.bsky.social5

Well, double nothing and you still contribute nothing. So, he's right, he isn't helping anyone.

Pyperkub5

Bezos seems to pay more to buy politicians than he does in taxes.... 2024: united4respect.org/reports/amaz...

I Dealt It5

So his premise is that if the government collects more taxes that won’t help anything? Make it make sense. Unless he’s referring to the corruption of the trump admin. Then ok yeah.

Eubie5

Stupid man makes ass ton of money and doesn't know how anything works

Rebel Scum 🏴5

He needs another phallic rocket and mega yacht much more than whatever those teachers need that money for.

simongood.bsky.social5

I say lets try it and see how it goes!!!

Liberal K.M.D5

How do you double zero?

JLaw, not Trisolaran5

I'll take that bet. 0x2 is 0.

zetetic99.bsky.social5

"You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you." I say we move fast and break billionaires.

Comeonforsome5

If you double it from 0 to 0

Jeffrey w/3 Fs5

Okay, double’s not enough. Noted.

CBTbiscuit5

he knows this is untrue, I mean he lives in a weird fantasy world but he isn't an idiot

Gigix34

Let's test that theory then. Double the mans taxes!

David Collier4

No cos double of 1% is till feck all. Try 50x.

The Ghost Of Sarra Copia Sullam4

I'm just like, prove it. Pay the taxes, motherfucker.

wharf rat4

if we seize every penny he has, I bet it will help a lot of teachers we should give it a try

JGeo4

20 times zero... Is still zero. 1960s highest earner tax rates... 91% (yes, ninety-one percent)

JauntyWunderKind4

Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty 2013: bsky.app/profile/bft....

Resiprocity4

Anyone can win a lottery… wealth does not equal intelligence.

Martin4

Maybe he's entirely correct. If he's reducing his bill to the extent that Tr*mp when he paid, what was it, $750? Then he's absolutely correct, it won't make a blind bit of difference

traciew.bsky.social4

Out of touch. Therein lies the problem.

Pobol Pobotrol4

Rent is so high in Manhattan and everywhere else in the world because the super rich put all their money into assets such as land and property, increasing those asset prices and lowering interest rates which leads to a feedback loop driving the process exponentially. They distort the economy.

Maybelle4

Because you already pay too little. If you paid like the rest of us, she could afford groceries & aspire to own a home

WeFUCT!4

Tax the fuck out of this bitch! Fuck you bezos. Billionaires should be illegal, you get $999,999,999.99 that's fucking it!

MsDWrites4

If that’s true, it’s because he’s paying even less tax than I think he is.

Paranoid Hemorrhoid4

Who made that assertion? Show me the quote of someone stating that we need to tax Jeff to help Queens schoolteachers. Schools used to teach debate skills, and this is called a "straw man argument" and should be easily dismantled by a semi-precocious 13-year old.

anonymoustroll.bsky.social4

I agree with Jeff that we need a wealth tax on these freeloading billionaires.

LeighFitz.4

But it will help somebody.

Nobody should have a billion dollars. It's a Cthulhu

K.P O'Connor3

I promise Bozos that he'll still be a billionaire even if his employees don't work next to a cadaver. Besides, teachers in Queens are asking for paid for school supplies, not Bentley's. That AH is so out of touch.

Midnight Train To Georgia On My Mind3

I promise you it won’t hurt.

M.S. Squires3

Gee idk....rubs chin....I'd better ask Liz Warren 'bout that.

leftaz.bsky.social3

Fuck Jeff Bezos. Also a very faulty rationale!!!

marcosantana3

@aoc.bsky.social can use this statement in a campaign advert. @cnbc.com @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

sudo3

10 seconds on Google: "Jeff Bezos has a "true tax rate" of roughly 1% when calculated against his explosive wealth growth. Because the vast majority of his fortune is tied up in stock ... his effective income tax rate on his total net worth expansion is microscopic..."

Ruth 😯🤯🍄3

Disgusting. A very elitist answer.

djdaisylee.bsky.social3

Or; and just hear me out, you could donate money to causes that help others.

Andy Econo3

It's either aggressive taxation or violent revolution.

Col. Bruce Hampton Ret.3

What if he paid a fair amount?

We all Belong!3

Wow. I thought he would be smarter.

Karin3

Double? How about 1000 times higher. That might help,

jhessberg.bsky.social3

Let's try anyway and see what happens.

Cat in the Hat3

Maybe not, but it would feel really cool

fabio3

One could also tripled the taxes billionaires pay and they wouldn’t even notice it. #taxtherich

gordeaux3

We used to debate creating a simple tax code where everyone pays 10%, if that was in place we would KNOW that all of us, including Bezos, are being treated and taxed equally and then we can have the debate about "Government is the problem."

Geddy Flea3

That’s no reason not to try.

Jax K2

Actually it will - if the taxes are used appropriately.

sudo2

The Middle Class pays a wealth tax on houses, which are the main repository of their accumulated wealth. The super rich should pay a 1% or 2% tax on their assets, like we do. They could sell that 1%-2% of stocks and other assets to mark to market each year, to establish actual value.

galileocopernicus.bsky.social2

LOL he totally underestimates us.

melaniefromsanjose.bsky.social2

He could fix so many issues

lafourchette2

(what happened to his mouth? has he had some sort of reconstructive work done?🤔)

Chris Plourde2

Bezos' tax rate is lower than yours, or mine.

J.I.M.2

Well, heck let’s give it a try.

Inafume2

Then lets make you pay 100x the taxes you pay.

Elise2

They love their logical fallacies

The_Political_Buddhist2

Just shows how out of touch with reality he is.

mikeg60.bsky.social2

Correct going from $1 to $2 won’t help. But let’s get real and make multibillion dollar companies pay their fare share.

petite violette2

that's nice, it shouldn't be your decision. would be nice if we had a functioning democratic government

Blue Sue2

Anyone have any ideas on why housing is so expensive? Why is it the “governments” fault per Bezos?

‪🅿️2

There's an old Mac Asteroids clone (Maelstrom) that if you got a bonus, but didn't score anything, would play an old prospector voice saying "Twice nothing is nothing." Seems appropriate here.

i-am-noname.bsky.social2

Of course not. $0 x 2 = $0.00

nathan-ramsey13.bsky.social2

Someone doesn’t understand logic but knows his taxes go back in his and all other billionaires pockets! Stop interviewing these wastes of space stop making them relevant and it will be better

The Deuce2

So ... we need to quintuple it?

IDDQD2

That's because you are borrowing against your stocks to avoid paying taxes, right?

They Say16

The only language Jeff Bezos understands is money. Boycott Amazon.

Thomas Ley13

It's still Musk. He destroyed USAID and condemned millions and millions of people for years to come to death.

J2theV13

He destroys Main Street. Doesn’t pay a livable wage. Avoids paying taxes and then tells Congress it has a spending problem. Amazon is the scourge of local retail. The convenience isn’t worth selling your soul for.

browneyedswede.bsky.social11

It’s a shame people won’t boycott Amazon. It’s the worst of self-centered, bottom line, profit driven, above customer company there is. Their trucks are ruining our roads and blocking our streets. Support local businesses. #stopamazon

The Infinitely Prolonged7

I might go with Thiel, but it's a deep bench.

Rose7

All of them are certainly evil. But Thiel is the one who's always lurking behind the door, who owns Vance & Palantir, wants to own Greenland. And got Trump to force the return of that Honduran dictator so they wouldn't close down Thiel's creepy Network State there. His ties to Yarvin are creepy too.

Mark Hoben5

Please check the Bezos death toll versus Musk and DOGE and get back to us Bezos is exceptionally awful but he pales in comparison

Debs Girl💙🌊Save 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇹🇼2

I believe all of his companies will have to be sold in order to not be stained by his ownership.

Your Canadian Girlfriend11

Bezos is a weasel and he will never improve humanity with his Amazon wealth like MacKenzie Scott is doing. Also he's looking really rough as if one of his anti-aging treatments is going all WASP woman on him.

Dr Robin9

Case in point: Elon Musk The greedy assholes think they can take it with them.

spherical-cow.bsky.social8

It's downstream of being surrounded exclusively by people who will never tell you "no" for a couple of decades.

Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee7

Also, he’s morphing into one of the clones. bsky.app/profile/jane...

Aloysius Thudthwacker6

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." --William Gibson, _Count Zero_

The Fifth Dentist5

If his vanity space flight had failed, the world would be in a much better place today.

gonzojeff.bsky.social3

This is Bezos on his knees and wiping his mouth off. This is one of the richest people on earth debasing themselves to a convicted rapist, serial liar, and total fraud. Do you really want to emulate these trash people?

Sane Lunatic2

We need to keep ostracizing filthy rich people like Bezos. Make them outcasts - shunned and despised by all. Because they have no conscience....and we collectively have to teach them right from wrong.

Jack Brand2

With people like Bezos, Trump and Musk, it's a hoarding pathology. Instead of the old aunt who collects newspapers and magazines so you can't walk thru her house, they hoard money. And they can never have enough to be happy.

JAWalker2

He’ll probably hear from trump’s people for saying he still calls Obama for advice and Obama’s a smart guy.

Gwynplaine8

Whenever someone tries to rationalize Trump's ineptitude & criminality by stating that he has many good ideas & policies, they never, ever reference said policies or ideas. The simple reason for that is he never has good ideas or sound policies that benefit anyone other than himself & the wealthy.

Kira7

Think about this before you buy from Amazon or Whole Foods.

diana forsthoffer7

"trump has good ideas" to allow him to keep lining his overstuffed pockets.

Bornblue5

Jeff Bezos is an asshole. Too harsh? OK, maybe he's just a prick.

Boulder Voter Rob4

Bezos is in the Epstein file, isn't he?

They Say4

The only language Jeff Bezos understands is money. Boycott.

Max Quinn3

Trump's been markedly more mature and disciplined on social media -- where he frequently posts lots of good ideas. And billionaires are totally in touch with reality....

Matt Cohen3

Bezos and the other oligarchs are destroying us. I'm glad I got to say so in MAD Magazine.

timbo6.bsky.social3

The new and ultra rich Bezos. He’s progressed to being rich enough to just wandering around the world on his HUGE yacht, new exciting wife in hand.(If he can fend off her family) He can deal with Trump and not have issues. Trump idolizes the “Rich and famous”. Bezos just agrees and sails off!

gullyd.bsky.social2

And then the reporter immediately said, "Name one of those good ideas that you'd give him credit for." No? Of course not. And all of my former editors and colleagues and thousands of laid-off journalists from the WaPo and nationwide scream at the TV in frustration.

Jake2

F Amazon. I’ll go to a store.

wizard prang10

Eisenhower, a Republican, advocated for very high tax brackets, and that helped surge what was our middle class. One guy during that time actually did become a legit billionaire (Howard Hughes). All the billionaires now are the result of R tax cuts moving all the $ to those who least need it.

Jay Higgins (they/them)6

It absolutely will help that teacher in Queens because they are also working a second job as an Amazon delivery driver. Billionaires can fuck off into the sun.

GuyRidesBikes5

Let's do the math, 2 x $0=$0, so yeah, hes right, doubling his taxes isn't going to help that teacher in Queens.

vet-ingenting.bsky.social4

Tax billionaires out of existence! No human being needs to be or deserves to be a billionaire.

Kimberly Griffin4

However, HE could help that teacher in Queens. He could help his fellow citizens in countries ways

Ivan Plis4

There was a recent (for my sins) Ezra Klein episode with tax historian Ray Madoff; fortunately Madoff was also on @trufelman.bsky.social’s show recently making the same point — which is that income taxes were explicitly framed as the bloodless alternative to more punitive treatment of gross wealth.

finallysock.bsky.social2

Queens? Ooh he's still mad about HQ2

barkielouise.bsky.social2

Trump will just siphon it up anyway.

Take out all g.o.p. trash in 20262

Well, why don't we start with doubling your taxes there cue ball. If that doesn't help, oh, and it will btw, we'll just go after more of your obscene wealth you filthy leech. You DIDN'T build the infrastructure you're using for FREE dumb-a*s.

repeet11.bsky.social5

I'm really not a hater but this guy... and his fellow oligarch brethren are a really loathesome batch of former humans.

Rose4

Translation: ... Trump steals from you and gives it to me and the other Billionaires. We're glad we finally have a Fully Corrupt President who's just as Greedy and Soulless as we are.

Jan🇵🇦🇨🇦🇺🇲(Don't add me to Packs!)2

Jeff Bezos is a Trump ass-kisser. Why would anyone believe him?

Stevie Z2

Mamdani isn't going to be cowed by some POS sociopath billionaire.

One of many Dans6

I mean he's not wrong. Double zero is still zero.

Caroline Casey3

imagine being this much of a self-satisfied pustule

Lars2

We don’t intend to stop at “doubling.” More money for school teachers is one goal of taxing billionaires. Another one is getting rid of billionaires.

Alex9

he's gonna sing the next James Bond theme

ohgodwhatdoiput6

"I love you, alive girl" gonna be a huge hit in the Eurodance charts

markmcan.bsky.social3

And then buys every copy to make it number 1

I am nameless yet others name me3

it will be even better than Kim Dotcoms!

tactical babs2

my god, don't speak it into being

Eben (gregarious and punished)2

The Jeff Bezos Blues Recession

Pete Davidson2

AI improved mega yacht rock

The Neverending Skoryy9

"We get caught cheating and lose half our wealth in the divorce."

ItsEasyBeingGreen6

Similar to how rich guys emailing with baboon-level writer Jeffrey Epstein all thought he was a genius, these guys in group chats with Egghead are totally cooked.

crochic99.bsky.social4

All I keep remembering is those cute Amazon t.v. commercials back when he started the company. We consumers made him rich and now he bites the hands that once fed him!!!

hoya81.bsky.social3

I sincerely thought the DOGE experiment would kill this talking point off forever, as they sent a bunch of tech goons in to sniff out the $2 trillion in fraud that they were convinced was waiting around to be discovered, only to find a bunch of civil servants doing their jobs.

Consider Keeping Your Daywalker Job2

Honda Accord-era Bezos, let's get *him* on the line here

Second Life Kay6

Was just in your neck of the woods twice last week. Agree completely. I have driven through large parts of the rural Western high desert in the past decade. Ranchers growing huge spreads of alfalfa etc., and watering with water from our rivers and lakes in 92+ deg. F in the afternoon.

Carolyn Cee3

this is the sort of thing I would want to do if I won the lottery (if I actually played it)

crazzyasss.bsky.social130

Does this mean Bezos will pay his taxes.

Observations on the Failings of Humanity108

Or maybe we should pay the bottom 50% a lot better.

Grudgie the Whale98

This man is trying to get rid of progressive taxation

justbejust4all.bsky.social31

So says the man who pays $0 in income tax.

9hertfordstreet.bsky.social24

How about if he just pays his.

Jared20

They (bajillionaires) don’t won’t government b/c they don’t personally need anything government offers and can’t wrap their heads around the stability good government brings is what enables their businesses to thrive. They’ll destroy themselves but we will perish first, before gilded fever breaks.

EC17

It sounds great until you realize they will most definitely use it as a reason to cut you out of the political process, much the same way voting was once only permitted by white land owners. www.history.com/articles/vot...

Lake. Big Lake.11

If only we had no taxes, and everything was every man for himself. Would that work out better for the nurse in Queens, or the billionaire?

Cassiopeia🇵🇹🇩🇪11

Hmmm…this is how much I trust Bozos.

melissa10

You shouldn’t be asking billionaires, who make up less than 1% of the population, what they think about any of this. Instead, how about you ask that nurse in Queens if they think they should pay a higher percent of their income in taxes than Jeff Bezos does.

Chrishill98810

That’s rich coming from this Lex Luther wannabe.

Jo7

Or he could just pay his fair share of taxes. I’m so sick & fucking tired of the rich elite trying to cut me out of the American dream. I want to pay for the things my gov does so I can keep voting for the things that my gov does. You go down this road & it ends in “only taxpayers can vote”

Mira6

a nurse in queens is absolutely not in the bottom 50% of incomes in this country

sirpear.bsky.social6

Let me interpret this for you. They emptied the wallets of the bottom 50%. Now they are coming after the 50% to 75%. The top 1% will still pay no taxes

proton256.bsky.social4

So, it's up to the middle 40% to fund trump and his family, I mean the country.

Jack Mitcham, Ph.D.4

There's no way a nurse in queens makes below the federal median.

Riggs D. Thermonucleon, A.I. ✨4

Silicon Valley spent years promising software would “scale infinitely.” AI arrived and immediately required: nuclear-scale energy planning, industrial construction, and firing thousands of employees to finance GPU colonies.

Mina3

Talk about hiding the ball. They want a national sales tax, which is regressive.

Kat K 🐾🐾3

This was Steve Forbes’ main talking point when he ran for president years ago. Billionaires want a national sales tax on everything which hurts day-to-day consumers. The goal is to get rid of tax brackets so that the population doesn’t notice that billionaires pay nothing.

AW Stiles3

This is a smokescreen from Bezos. A sales tax will not fix the fact that we have billionaires like him w far too much wealth in a country where we won't even fund SNAP fully.

Eternal Eeyore3

“And then, when the government goes belly up because no one pays into it, that nurse in Queens can use the money she saved to buy Amazon Healthcare and Amazon Prescriptions and pay to drive on Amazon Tollroads and invest in Amazon Retirement and…”

Rick does Math and Stuff3

What does this even mean? Billionaires don't want a progressive income tax for interests of self-interest. It has nothing to do with concern about "a nurse in Queens". Bezos is an extraordinarily greedy man.

kenofseattle3

Translation: I'm lying. Vote Republican and we'll raise your taxes again.

Roy Edroso3

Fuck Bezos and fuck you

Colorful2

Republicans and billionaires are conveying fake populism in public but in private will advocate for themselves. Bezos is saying this while Amazon lays off hundreds of thousands of workers which wrecks people and families, just so his wealth increases billions more. Yeah, fuck him and this lie!

cocochristopher.bsky.social2

Ah yes, all those NYC nurses in the bottom 50% income bracket.

Lagerwhat2

Taxes for things like schools, infrastructure, transportation, parks, healthcare, clinics, research, etc. everything a civil society has. Bezos does not want a civil society.

Nothin’ but Blue Skies from now on2

“Join Amazon Prime and send money to me instead”

BlueAnon2

I think all working class Americans should pay what Amazon pays.

MarvinTheParanoidAndroid2

That's some bullshit coming from a person who doesn't pay a fair pro-rata tax contribution. inequality.org/article/tax-... He's a kunt

🌈 (andy)2

My god, the work he's had done on his face is getting more and more evident.

hikepc.bsky.social2

Lame & phony lies to convince the “bottom 50%” to vote for Trump. He doesn’t mean a word of it.

Mark Cianca2

Government has a role - and its citizens have a role in funding the government. I neither need nor want self-interested tax theory from plutocrats.

21,465 words2

Maybe he should try paying them.

SheiSho2

Good god, you couldn't possibly be so stupid as to print this as some actual news? How gullible are you?

Elliott Perkins2

The heck with that guy. Tax me and tax him more.

Kelly Cooper2

The Amazon chairman should be ignored whenever possible. In a just world he would have no more influence over public policy than a pauper.

David Breece2

Just pay your share, Jeff. 🙄

Stuart Malcolm2

We should send Bezos to the electric chair.

Séguin with an é2

We ask the nurse in Queens (and everyone else) to pay taxes so we can pay for roads, fire departments, and libraries, that we all use.

David Lewis2

The man pays a 2% tax rate. He won’t treat his workers decently. Why should anyone see his proposals as benefiting anyone but him and Trump and their fellow oligarchs and trophy blondes? Time to really tax the rich.

Sparksflying2

Then he will say, you can’t have a voice because you pay no taxes.