Bezos is right. Double of nothing is... nothing.

Technically true.

2 x $0 = $0

Double? These assholes really don't know how close they are to being lynched in their own mansions

doubles his taxes

Bezos continues to pay $0 in taxes

Sounds like we should nationalize Amazon. That's what he's saying, right?

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.

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.

"I promise you" is billionaire speak for "fuck you and fuck your family"

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?

Said without irony as he sits in front of his personal vanity rocket. How many teachers could we pay a decent wage with that thing Jeff? What would we lose? Sending Katy Perry and her flower to space?

Bezos is right. 2 x 0 = 0

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.

I mean he is probably technically correct. But let's tax them a lot not double of the pittance they pay.

I promise you that when we eat him Bezos will be delicious.

I'd be open to try it though, for science..

"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?"

You could kill Epstein and it's not gonna make a difference I promise

Well he's right. 0 x2 = 0 ...

Seems i was very late to joke. I'll see myself out.

Well let's do it and find out!

Why dont we just take it all then it'll get put to use

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.

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

Your promises ain't worth shit.

No one's talking about just double. Orders of magnitude.

"Okay. Will do."

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.

Let's try it and see, you may have conflicting goals

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.

Mayor of my heart

"Trust me, bro."

So then he apparently doesn't even know what taxes even are, or why they're collected.

Hmmm.. ok, but what if we kill you and give that teacher in Queens 5 million of your dollars?