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    Jeff Bezos calls for for zero federal income taxes on the bottom half of earners. He cited a nurse in Queens making $75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.”
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    Jeff Bezos calls for for zero federal income taxes on the bottom half of earners. He cited a nurse in Queens making $75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.”


    Jeff Bezos calls for for zero federal income taxes on the bottom half of earners. He cited a nurse in Queens making $75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.”



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    7. igetproteinfartsHELP on

      Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos on Wednesday called for zero federal income taxes on the bottom half of earners

      The top 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all the tax revenue, and the bottom half pay 3%, Bezos told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box.”

      **”I don’t think it should be 3%,” Bezos said. “I think it should be zero.”**

      “I think what’s going on is that it’s kind of a tale of two economies, so you have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling,” Bezos said.

    9. SteinWrld on

      Him saying this while his workers in the Amazon warehouses gets paid nothing is crazy.
      Incredibly performative statement from him lmao.

    10. Ponchorello7 on

      That’s a start. And he along with other top earners and corporations should pay more to make up the difference. A functioning government needs taxes to operate.

    11. EvenPossible5918 on

      You know what would really help Joffrey? Wage caps and taxing billionaires accordingly. Effectively creating no more billionaires.

    16. Significant_Onion752 on

      Can you start by paying your employees a livable wage you disgusting fuck

    18. LibrarianinNC on

      He said, “please don’t eat me when you bottom earners start eating the rich”.

    25. lyn73 on

      just pay ***your*** fair share in taxes, dude…and then all the mid-income people wouldn’t have to carry your burden

    26. jackpearson2788 on

      I always wondered when people say no federal taxes on wages like how are we going to tackle our insane national debt. We should tax bezos and the rest of the billionaires out of existence

    28. TheSAComplimentedMe on

      He wants them to have more disposable income to spend at Amazon…

    29. Reasonable_Claim_796 on

      “Jeff Bezos is worth $198 billion.

      Let’s imagine if each step of a staircase represents $100,000 in the bank. Most people, including 1 in 2 Americans and 89% of the world, can’t even step onto the first step of the staircase because they have less. After 4 steps, we’ve lost over 75% of Americans. Fewer than 1 in 10 people will ever reach the 10th step: a million dollars.

      Now put on your most comfortable hiking shoes. You’d have to climb for almost 3 hours before reaching the net worth of a billionaire.

      After spending 9 hours a day climbing steps for 2 months, you’d have Ironman-level quads as you finally reach the wealth of Jeff Bezos.”

      *A quote from the book, “Making numbers count” by Chip Heath and Karla Starr.*

    30. RalphInMyMouth on

      I don’t know the math well enough, but I’m sure this man could single handedly support every nurse in Queens for life and still be a multi billionaire.