Bezos is right. Double of nothing is... nothing.

doubles his taxes

Bezos continues to pay $0 in taxes

Sounds like we should nationalize Amazon. That's what he's saying, right?

Double? These assholes really don't know how close they are to being lynched in their own mansions

Time to post a classic: https://hmijail.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

It's a few years old, so probably need to double these numbers. At least, Wikipedia says that Bezos' net worth is now $284 billion.

You could take 90% of his wealth and he’d still have more than 99.999% of the rest of the country.

He didn’t earn that money. He’s just a squatter making money on everyone else’s work. Stfu you whiner, Bezos.

"I promise you" is billionaire speak for "fuck you and fuck your family"

The guy with all the money says that other people getting some of the money wouldn't help them.

And in the US a huge number of people just nod along because our culture tells us that net worth = human worth = intelligence = trustworthiness.

There's no continuing the thought, like if the money won't help struggling teachers then why is it so important that it stay with the person who already has ten thousand times the amount of money that would make a teacher rich and set for life?

Bezos is right. 2 x 0 = 0

Said without irony as he sits in front of his personal vanity rocket. How many teachers could we pay a decent wage with that thing Jeff? What would we lose? Sending Katy Perry and her flower to space?

Yeah, Bezos pays almost nothing in income tax compared to his wealth.

Double of almost nothing is still almost nothing. So I guess he's technically right, which is usually the best type of right...but.

I promise you that when we eat him Bezos will be delicious.

"I promise you, it wouldn't work. Actually, it'd make everything worse. So just trust me and don't try it. It's for your own good. I know what I'm talking about. You know I'd never lie, right? So no matter what happens, don't try it. Okay?"

I mean he is probably technically correct. But let's tax them a lot not double of the pittance they pay.

I'd be open to try it though, for science..

You could kill Epstein and it's not gonna make a difference I promise

Well he's right. 0 x2 = 0 ...

Seems i was very late to joke. I'll see myself out.

Well let's do it and find out!

No one's talking about just double. Orders of magnitude.

"Okay. Will do."

I have a great idea, we'll take all his billions, and set them on fire. No tax! And all of a sudden, inflation goes the other way for a day

Edit: spelling

Your promises ain't worth shit.

Mayor of my heart

"Trust me, bro."

Let's try it and see, you may have conflicting goals

Interesting stratagy of trying to get lower taxes for the angry little people to distract from you own under contributions bazos. I don't think it's worked but it was worth a shot I guess.

He can promise that it won't help because the people he's paid to put in power will refuse to act on it.

Shit, we could make life better for a lot of people if we just distributed the federal revenue we have now differently, but that requires not bowing down to the agendas of billionaire donors.

So then he apparently doesn't even know what taxes even are, or why they're collected.

Why dont we just take it all then it'll get put to use

Education is paid for by property taxes. So increasing income tax revenue will not help teacher salaries unless the funding mechanism is changed.

Specifically, new taxes on businesses and billionaires need to be specifically earmarked for education, otherwise that money just goes to the pentagons bloated budget. Basically from one pocket to the other. Billionaires don’t want to pay for massive wars, they want to profit from arms sales and the military industrial complex.

Pinata economics this guy already

Hmmm.. ok, but what if we kill you and give that teacher in Queens 5 million of your dollars?

He's saying that because he understands the government is corrupt and those tax dollars would end up in the pockets of Trump and his sycophants, and funneled into the military-industrial complex in support of this months' endless war du joure, right? Right?

taxes for lower salary workers is to high becuase we do not collect enough on wealth. At this point to much wealth does not come from work but if we taxed all income regardless of source then it should be 0% until about 100k and then 5% until 200k and 10% until 400k and 15% until 700k and 20% until 1 mil and 25% until 2mil and 30% until 10mil and 35% until 20mil and 40% until 40 mil and 45% until 100mil and 50% for everything over that. Its so rediculous what we don't tax at all and when we do tax the highest has been hovering around 30% since we started having growing debt again. Then to boot the highest rate stars in the very lowest end of the six figures and never goes up more. its crazy.

That's because you're paying way less than half of what you should. Shall we start with 10% of everything over a billion of your net worth per year?

They always say crap like, "Believe me!"

Don't.

Bernie Sanders' current proposal to tax America's nearly 1000 billionaires 5% of net worth per year would bring in $4.4 Trillion (with a T) per year.

What he actually means is that you could TRY to double the taxes he pays.

He will spend so much more ensuring he pays fewer taxes and you'll never get him to pay. He promises you.

At this point it could cost us money to do and it would be worth it to decrease the resources with which billionaires could fuck everything up.

Let's not believe the promise and make it anyway. Not double, a thousand times. For a start.