• wjrii@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    “The top 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all the tax revenue, and the bottom half pay 3%,” Bezos said. “I don’t think it should be 3%. I think it should be zero.”

    “People sometimes say that, you know, I don’t pay taxes. Not true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes,”

    “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

    WT-absolute-F? I think he got oxygen-deprived in space.

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      11 hours ago

      “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

      well, in the USA this is probably true, all the money would be diverted into more military spending or tax breaks for stupid filthy rich people

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        which is why we need tax money being spent on the communal level. not the federal level. it’s the fed gov that spends it on the military, it’s the municipality that spends it on schools.

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        Fair enough, LOL. Just love that it’s “oh I pay TONS of taxes, but asking me to pay more in taxes won’t help anything.”

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      “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

      He promised!

      Seriously though, does he think that a) only Bezos of all multibillionaires gets taxed double and b) that wouldn’t go along with social policy?

      What a dumb wacko, high on sniffing his own farts. Probably partly due to a fawning interviewer.