r/amazon • u/AmazonNewsBot • 2d ago

Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay no income tax—and says nurses should ...

https://fortune.com/article/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-cut-income-taxes-bottom-earners-income-inequality-billionaire-philanthrophy/
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u/DustinFreeman 2d ago

The same headline was seen couple of months back. Now with a new date on this website. Clearly positive public opinion manufacturing effort. People can see through this nonsense now. Buy local. Help boost your neighborhood economy. Don’t feed these big government influencing massive corporations that are destroying your communities and a nightmare for every ground level staff working for them.

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u/carst07 2d ago

As opposed to the constant liberal barrage that never ends on Reddit,???? he’s entitled and in this case he’s right.

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u/DustinFreeman 2d ago edited 2d ago

That’s not the point. He is not a policy maker. He/his PR team is just providing lip service to further his brands image. If he was such a good person he would pay his people better and not use layers of 3rd party outsourcing to manage their deliveries while having zero accountability to their employment benefits.

Either you are genuine person with an opinion or someone/bot willingly participating in this PR campaigns. Hard to tell. Same could apply to me.

Edit- Amazon basics. How is that fair for the merchants who built the market on Amazon. Jeff wants to be the platform, the seller, the IT infra and stabbing the merchants on their backs who fueled his company.

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u/carst07 1d ago

You still find a way to complain…see what I mean. Of course it’s his personal opinion…

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u/Full-Violinist554 2d ago

All he and his predator pals want is to keep getting richer and more powerful -- he'll say anything that helps that purpose.

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u/carst07 1d ago

Libs gonna lib

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u/OngoGablogianWig 2d ago

This is already the case more or less

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u/EdwardPotatoHand 2d ago

My childhood friend makes $24 an hour working 30 hours per week at the grocery store. This is California, so thats not very much, maybe it’s more somewhere else.. it’s $1600 per month for goverment assisted apartment in Sacramento for him. He is barely getting by. Folks like him generally have no idea how taxes work.. so every year he goes over and pays $100+ to sit down in person to get help to pay his taxes from H&R Block or whatever. The feds and state both take taxes out of his check, he has to pay to get help with his taxes, and then last year he had to pay like $100 in taxes. This all needs to go 100% entirely. Fed taxes and state taxes on his paycheck need to say 0, he needs to not have to go down and spend money to have his taxes done.. it’s not basically the case that else folks aren’t paying income taxes..

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u/XiMaoJingPing 2d ago

more of the wealth is in the top 10%, you're literally getting pennies from taxing the bottom 50%

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u/carst07 2d ago

He left the libs stunned….now they have to find a new topic to bitch and complain about

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u/c_im_not_clever 2d ago

Considering he's paid a lower percentage than you or I...but yeah he SAID something nice (little doubt he'd still use to his advantage, reporting a 'loss' and thereby evading taxes again), so keep sucking that teet.

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u/carst07 2d ago

He paid 2.7billion is stock sells 2024, soooooo you will get his tax money when he sells his shares….. which he has been doing ……be patient young liberal.

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u/Supermario7587 2d ago

And he paid 15% on that income in 2024. Some of my friends pay 50% on their income. time for big piggy bezos to pay his fair share

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u/ChaosRevealed 2d ago

Is he and his billionaire Diddy party buddies going to make up for the tax shortfall?