Well he's right. 0 x2 = 0 ...
Seems i was very late to joke. I'll see myself out.
He can promise that it won't help because the people he's paid to put in power will refuse to act on it.
Shit, we could make life better for a lot of people if we just distributed the federal revenue we have now differently, but that requires not bowing down to the agendas of billionaire donors.
He's saying that because he understands the government is corrupt and those tax dollars would end up in the pockets of Trump and his sycophants, and funneled into the military-industrial complex in support of this months' endless war du joure, right? Right?
So then he apparently doesn't even know what taxes even are, or why they're collected.
Yeah, Bezos pays almost nothing in income tax compared to his wealth.
Double of almost nothing is still almost nothing. So I guess he's technically right, which is usually the best type of right...but.
They always say crap like, "Believe me!"
Don't.
Bernie Sanders' current proposal to tax America's nearly 1000 billionaires 5% of net worth per year would bring in $4.4 Trillion (with a T) per year.
Hmmm.. ok, but what if we kill you and give that teacher in Queens 5 million of your dollars?
Your promises ain't worth shit.
That's because you're paying way less than half of what you should. Shall we start with 10% of everything over a billion of your net worth per year?
Let's not believe the promise and make it anyway. Not double, a thousand times. For a start.
No one's talking about just double. Orders of magnitude.
"Trust me, bro."
I promise you that when we eat him Bezos will be delicious.
thats the most android looking human ever.
I've been vegan for almost 30 years, and I can't wait to eat these fucks like a sacrament.
Mayor of my heart
doubles his taxes
Bezos continues to pay $0 in taxes
Was going to say this, he's technically right because he pays so little in taxes to begin with. I am honestly more of a believer in a flat tax for the rich now than progressive tax structure. But they'd find some way to weasel out of it so there's only one solution to them.
You could take 90% of his wealth and he’d still have more than 99.999% of the rest of the country.
He didn’t earn that money. He’s just a squatter making money on everyone else’s work. Stfu you whiner, Bezos.
Interesting stratagy of trying to get lower taxes for the angry little people to distract from you own under contributions bazos. I don't think it's worked but it was worth a shot I guess.
Bezos is right. 2 x 0 = 0
The guy with all the money says that other people getting some of the money wouldn't help them.
And in the US a huge number of people just nod along because our culture tells us that net worth = human worth = intelligence = trustworthiness.
There's no continuing the thought, like if the money won't help struggling teachers then why is it so important that it stay with the person who already has ten thousand times the amount of money that would make a teacher rich and set for life?
Have you heard the song 'If I were a rich man' from Fiddler on the roof? One of the lyrics was that if he was a rich man people would flock to him ask him questions that 'would cross a Rabbi's eyes' meaning they would be complicated. And he says that it would not matter if he was wrong or right since being rich alone is what gives you credibility.
Bezos is right. Double of nothing is... nothing.
I'm pretty sure that he said that with that very thought in mind. Like a thinly veiled fuck you to the non-Epstein class.
how can we forget, zuckerberg, thiel , BEZOS and several other billionaires were having DINNER at one of epstein estate one time.
But not Musk because he's too thirsty and weird for the pack of societal-eroding pedos
Technically true.
2 x $0 = $0
"I promise you, it wouldn't work. Actually, it'd make everything worse. So just trust me and don't try it. It's for your own good. I know what I'm talking about. You know I'd never lie, right? So no matter what happens, don't try it. Okay?"
Sounds like we should nationalize Amazon. That's what he's saying, right?
Double? These assholes really don't know how close they are to being lynched in their own mansions
You could kill Epstein and it's not gonna make a difference I promise
I have a great idea, we'll take all his billions, and set them on fire. No tax! And all of a sudden, inflation goes the other way for a day
Edit: spelling
this is one of my things. you get these arguments about how well the government may spend the money but even if great wealth was taxed and burnt like you say it would have massive good effects on the economy. Its wealth disparity that is the problem.
I'd be open to try it though, for science..
"I promise you" is billionaire speak for "fuck you and fuck your family"
Time to post a classic: https://hmijail.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
It's a few years old, so probably need to double these numbers. At least, Wikipedia says that Bezos' net worth is now $284 billion.
Let's try it and see, you may have conflicting goals
Education is paid for by property taxes. So increasing income tax revenue will not help teacher salaries unless the funding mechanism is changed.
Specifically, new taxes on businesses and billionaires need to be specifically earmarked for education, otherwise that money just goes to the pentagons bloated budget. Basically from one pocket to the other. Billionaires don’t want to pay for massive wars, they want to profit from arms sales and the military industrial complex.
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