Mamdani slams Jeff Bezos for claiming that even if he pays double the taxes, it won’t help out the teachers in Queens: “I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.”
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Mamdani slams Jeff Bezos for claiming that even if he pays double the taxes, it won’t help out the teachers in Queens: “I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.”
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Zero doubled is still zero.
2 times 0 is still 0
It will forever astonish me that people will protest and hate those who they believe are stealing resources by coming into the country illegally but be quite happy with one of the richest people on Earth claiming that he shouldn’t have to pay taxes.
Fully agree and would even take it farther. Billionaires should be taxed out of existence. Teachers benefit society, billionaires benefit themselves. I know which I prefer to keep.
Let’s try it anyway and we’ll find out together, Jeff
I read this as doubling isn’t enough. Wasn’t the marginal tax rate on would be billionaires 90% back when there were no billionaires?
His perspective is “what’s a few extra million dollars?”
Obligatory “Fuck Bezos”
SLAMMED
Ezra Klein has an episode with someone who broke down Bezos’s W2. His salary with Amazon is apparently like $85k a year.
Oh so this is his position, don’t come after me, help the teachers pay less.
This is such a misdirect because the damage Amazon has done to our society goes beyond the ceo not paying income tax. If Bezos paid 90% income tax, his company would still be an ulcer on an healthy democracy. Amazon as a digital marketplace has eroded in-person shopping and reshaped the employment landscape. Where a young person might have got their first job at a grocery store, bookshop or deli, now they can look forward to a zero hour contract at an Amazon warehouse because all the small businesses in their town couldn’t survive the monopoly.
Amazon has accelerated and normalised surveillance and control of workers in their warehouses. They cut wages and benefits to the bone and are actively union busting as we speak. Not to mention the data centers. If Bezos makes this a conversation about income tax, he’s won the PR game. We need to be talking about their whole anti-human operation.
Tax his unrealized games then bust up Amazon because it’s a monopoly
Fuck Bumzos
love Mamdani but this isn’t a “slam”
Jeff Bezos paid an estimated $1.4 billion in federal taxes over 13 years (2006–2018).
That averages to about $108 million per year.
$108 million annually could:
– Pay around 1,450 public school teacher salaries every year
– Or give 10,000 teachers a ~$10,000 raise/bonus
– Or fund massive classroom supply and technology programs nationwide
Those journalists should be ashamed. Every time there is a discussion about taxes the wealthy use strawman arguments and change the subject. No economic literature suggest raising (just) income tax. It’s unimaginable wealth that poisons the economy und society. Big capital is wealth. Wealth undermines “1 voice 1 vote”. It’s not democratic because then just 1 small portion of people influence policying. And that’s the main principal of democracy. The majority creating their environment. Democratic representation as an input is nonsense if the output is undemocratic. Having a strong social, finance net and no income tax increases the purchasing power that is important in financial crises too.That money (government help, lower middle class income) stays in motion. Those people spend their money. For living. It’s not hoarded in some pdf billionaire dungeon. And those financial crises are often a lack of contracts, orders etc.. And that is a failure of management. Not national economy. But people get gaslighted it’s a them problem. The janitor earns too much, workers are too lazy, “we” need to make some sacrifices etc. Meanwhile the management is getting millions in bonuses. And u people elected a “businessman” as president and let a fcking ceo establish/run doge. U should learn to differentiate between private and national economy ffs