'Bond Villain' Jeff Bezos Claims 'You Could Double the Taxes I Pay' and It Won't Help Anyone | Common Dreams
Jeff Bezos is so much more boring, lame and devoid of personality than a Bond Villain though it physically hurts my brain to try to relate the two in my head.
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I agree with Bezos here. We should be taxing him dramatically more than double of what he's currently paying.
Double nothing is still nothing
Bezos paying any tax at all would be an improvement
I think what he's referring to is that even if you taxed him more right now, that money would just go to funding the trump admin, bombs, and ICE...
Just kidding, I don't think he actually cares about those things.
You know, you had me there for a second
I almost left off the last sentence but then I remembered satire doesn't always transfer well over text
He wants more of those things. As does the rest of the Dark Enlightenment assholes.
Yeah, but they won't fund it through tax dollars, more like direct "donations" and kickbacks to the corrupt politicians and evil organizations implementing the agenda.
Because 2x0=0?
Bingo!
It would be a massive benefit to all of us even if we burned all of his money in a dumpster rather than redistributing it.
Having billionaires who can buy elections or monopolize markets is inherently destabilizing to society. His dragon horde was captured by exploitation, and it should be returned to the people who actually earned it.
Use the monocle to start the fire!
Which is why we need a billionaire wealth tax too, and to close tax loopholes that allow the rich to pay close to nothing.
2*0=0
2 * 0 = 0
Or we could tax him at 75% and he'd still be filthy rich. Fuck these rich assholes.
"This is why taxing me is bad..." - Rich Cunt
"So please don't."
Nobody wants to double thentaxes on the uber wealthy. We want way way more than double. Personally, I like 100% on "wealth"/"net worth" over 10 million dollars.
After you hit $1 billion, just a total reset to 0. They're all pretty confident they can get there again easily, so shouldn't really be a problem. Enjoy your little spotlight in Forbes.
Well… under the current administration, one could argue that he’s right.
Why not then, as it won’t harm him either?
0 x 2 = 0
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE
No, that's how he is supposed to look.
It's almost as bad as his wife's
He's becoming more elderly and grew some facial hair.
Doubling his taxes won't do much.
Taxing him at 50% will.
Because the double of 0 it's still 0, tax those bastards
Double 0. In front of a bond-villain-style rocket.
2 x 0 = 0
So yeah. Of course it won't. All those loopholes and tax shelters they've paid to have written into the tax code need to be closed. They need to be taxed out of existence (as in billionaires shouldn't exist)
Nothing times two is nothing.
You sure? Let's try it!
two options, jackass
or
How much would that be? Like $15?
1.5 bananas worth then.
I like Leeja Miller's line, taxes were the compromise.
He is just saying he pays no taxes guys. Hands out the pitchforks
2 × 0 = 0
So what you're saying is that we should be taking more, a LOT more? We should keep taking until it does help somebody?
I can get down with that.
Yes doubling it won't help it needs to be 33% flat for him and Amazon which is probably more than 5 times
They should double his taxes and then double them again and again and again and again. Billionaires should not exist.
Let's find out.
Tax billionaires on the assets they control, till they're millionaires.
Hmmm, maybe make into a gameshow and call it "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2"
You also could have just not made this. This contributes nothing to the conversation.
FWIW it's obviously AI. Disclosed or not.
Waste of water and an excess load on the power grid.
Once, maybe. But when it happens thousands of times a minute constantly, it wastes energy.
ETA: "The snowflake does not blame itself for the avalanche."
Only one way to find out - whaddya say we give it a try, Jeff?
Which is why we need to quintuple it. And keep doubling it from there until morale has improved globally.
Because multiplying zero results in zeros?
I'd venture that setting his effective rate to the same as everybody else's would make the amount a lot more than double
Of course, that's why taxes for multi millionaires and upwards should be percentages based on income, civil contribution, participation and national financial participation (ie. Where is the money made v where is it spent or sequestered.)
bet
The only way that is true is if he pays none...gotta fix that.
He has a point because currently Trump decides what gets done with taxes.
Double it AND enforce it too. Problem solved.
Gwan then
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
I wonder what would help people, according to this tube steak.