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The biggest challenge facing almost every country is the existence of the ultra-wealthy.

What if the ultra-wealthy are actually the biggest challenge facing the country?

All I see is tax cuts = layoffs. So how can this be about job creation?

Billionaire gets whiny a modicrum of his power might get taxed away. Lol cry me a damn river of crocodile tears

Bezo doesn't wanna feel guilty, there's a REAL FUCKING EASY SOLUTION you jackass (this message to be shouted at Jeff Bezos in person standing 3 inches away at 100 decibels)

As Piketty pointed out (Cit21c, 2013), taxation of the rich isn't there to fix all the revenue problems. It's there to keep the rich from getting so wealthy they can manipulate the system, become menaces to society. bsky.app/profile/bft....

Easy solution: Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

The ultra-wealthy are villains. glad we could clear this up

Sounds like something a billionaire would say.

He should relax. There could be a worse wedge issue for hm to worry about. Just sayin’…

Rich guy says "I want money I can't spend" more at 11

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Genuine question, did whoever wrote that headline get through it with a straight face?

“Focus on liberals being stupid, lie my paper tells you too! Not how hard it is for you to live with the simplicity and security I have in spades!”

These guys literally live like Bond villians (see half-billion dollar yacht) and corporate media is trying to make us feel sorry for them? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koru_(y...

Bezos can go fuck himself.

He’s a gaslighting cunt, more monster than human.

I'm pretty sure that we didn't need politicians to villainize the rich. They do a fabulous job of advertising their own bastardry all on their own. I mean, look at yourself for a moment NBC News. Are you just permanently on your knees these days? The boots taste good?

I hope I live long enough to read his obituary.

Embarrassing how our news media simps for billionaires. This isn’t news, his opinion doesn’t matter just because he’s rich.

He literally was just gassing up America's dictator, I'm not sure he's a reliable source.

God I cant wait for bezos to be buried

To some extent I agree. Raising taxes on individuals isn't a silver bullet. It needs to be combined with raising taxes on corporations, reigning in scammy accounting practices, worker and union protections, tying exec to worker compensation, environmental protections, etc etc Or, you know...

Sweden has this from what I've been told. The Swedish rich are agitating to be even richer.

*3 Don't forget Branson

By "more", we mean "out of existence", by the way. No individual should wield the kind of power a billion dollars gives them.

Of course he's going to say that. It's your job to call out his bullshit. Last time we taxed the rich, we went to the Moon. Once we stopped that, the only place any of us went to is Dollar General.

All of the billionaires should go on television and talk about taxes.

Besos is among the top predator class destroying the world. IMO he is pure evil. But It's the corporate citizen that created the predator class. bsky.app/profile/aste...

US .GOV: We're taking away medical care and food for people and using that money to give tax breaks to wealth hoarders Wealth Hoarder Bezos: Why won't the .GOV stop picking on me?!

This guy should be banished to outer space in one of his rockets.

Let us try even

Darth Vader says fighting the Sith won't help the average Alderaanian

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Either pay your taxes or be put in jail.... or that third option of eat the rich. Do the rich value their life?

Seriously?

Bezos helped me understand that the wealthy are villains when I worked in one of his warehouses. There is no larger challenge that the country and world face than the abuse of workers, reality, and our mother earth that evil bastards like Bezos carry out

I wonder why he said that …..? How much is enough, Bezos?

The TRUE welfare queen should shut the fuck up!!

Bigger challenges facing the country? Such as WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY GOING?

Nobody needs a politician to tell us you and the Epstein class suck. Your wife looks like she turned herself into a human Bratz doll.

Yes, yes it will. It would be a huge boon to America and all its citizens if the top marginal rate on anything over say $30M is 75%, especially if there is a wealth tax as well

Because it'll all just go towards imperialism?

Good thing no one cares about Bozos feelings and this is the most psychotic statement. Who does he think he’s fooling while everyone is watching and seeing the paper trails every living moment? Jeffy they’re going to come for your warehouse if you keep avoiding taxes to this extent. Chill bro

He should not only pay an inordinate amount of taxes, but he should pay his workers enough to pee at work and have a good life. HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE!!

I literally could not care less what that dragon sitting on his hoard of gold, laying waste to the countryside thinks. Talk to real people affected by high prices (does not include Trump voters in diners, they've already had more than their fair share of space.)

Abolish billionaires

afterwards bezos left to go golfing on his yacht, before picking up his wife to jaunt off to their pied a terre on the moon

What bigger challenges than a Second Gilded Age and the rise of Billionaire-backed Fascism does he think we face? A shortage of ports big enough for his Yacht?

The wealthy aren't villanized. They are villans.

A hit dog will holler.

Ah yes, we wouldn’t want anyone using taxes as a wedge issue, right Bezos?

Exactly this

Unless the average tax payer: uses roads, gasoline, eats food needs healthcare wants an education needs water.

But they are villains. Tax his net worth. Worldwide.

No its just some people waking up to the con job greedy billionaires like playing on everyone. 🤷‍♂️ Republican voters might be fooled the rest of us are catching on tho.

Vilifying. Not villainizing.

I dunno, Trump passed his Billionaire Bailout Bill last year and the rest of us are paying more for everything than ever before. Seems like those 2 things are connected.

Him paying more taxes is the compromise to him getting the athletic JFK experience.

I think we should try it out. In the spirit of “move fast and break things”, why not?

Cry, bitch.

NBC managed to do the interview without pointing out Bezos pays a tax rate of a 1.1 percent. He also claimed "Melania" was profitable when the numbers are public. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

thanks for the input, Lex Luther

Cackling man with a curly moustache in the process of tying a woman to a set of railway tracks: “So what’s happening here is, politicians are using the kind of age old technique ... you know, picking a villain and pointing fingers, but the problem is that doesn’t solve anything."

Bezos is very clear. SNAP so full-time employees can get enough food. Reduce taxes (but forget the +-20% already too poor to pay taxes). And wait patiently for the money to "trickle down". He is very clear in his point of view: Every option is on the table. Except paying people a living wage.

Liar.

I know what he's saying, but all most people hear is "please burn more warehouses".

Only one way to find out.

I don't think we should listen to the assholes we should tax about who we should tax just gonna be a no from me

Actual villain you ridiculous lickspittles

It’s not a wedge issue. The people know. And the people are not distracted to that fact.

There exists no bigger challenge on earth than stopping the villainy of the ultra rich. Almost all the harm done in the world is done by them. They must be stopped at any cost, or they will destroy us all

Hey, that’s great! Got any more non-solutions? I thought you were so wealthy because you had solutions? What’s your fucking solution to all this fucking debt because of what we have handed to people like you?

pretty sure he’s only saying that because he’s an ultra-wealthy villain

The ultra-wealthy ARE the biggest challenge facing this country, and it's not even close.

Let's try it and find out for ourselves.

Billionaires don’t need people to villainize them; billionaires are villains by definition because they use their positions of power to exploit the working class and rob us all blind. We could take 50% of Jeff Bezos wealth and that greedy weasel would still have more money than he could ever spend.

I'll go to hell for saying I hope he gets cancer od the rectum.

fox accuses chickens of villainizing it for simply wanting to get into the henhouse

I look forward to seeing Jeff Bezos get what's coming to him.

I'm going to play his bald head like a bongo

Oh.. cry me a river. Their greed is a disease. We wipe it out by making them pay their fair share in taxes.

Ohhhh…..Excellent. They are getting nervous and they have much better sources of information then we do.

Not just taxloopholes? Government contracts, dumping unemployment insurance on tax payers, etc. Owning politicians has other benefits: pardons, and possibly in the future, freedom from tax audits at all.

Orca solidarity!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KN...

The “bigger challenges facing the country” have been billionaire assholes getting richer and richer, for like 45 years. Taxing them out of billionaire status is only a wedge issue because they sink hundreds of millions of dollars into making people say it’s “controversial”

If you made people desperate enough, they'll work for lower wages. All the poorest countries in the world don't lack rich families. They lack a large middle class.

Those same U.S. politicians that gave the ultra-wealthy massive tax breaks, while gutting social programs? The ones Bezos keeps donating to & supporting? Spare us.

You misspelled "Amazon Executive Chair and one of the richest people alive cries 'Waaaah, please don't take my money'"

“Stopping me from stealing babies won’t help anyone says famous baby stealer” how is this news? Ultra wealthy SHOULD be villainized!

Cry me a river

I don't know what's more infuriating - this guy's gall to say this, or the 10s of millions of people living below the poverty line paying out of pocket for healthcare, daycare, etc., that agree with him.

Villainizing serial killers who make their victims into a dress will do nothing to help the garment industry, says Buffalo Bill.

Give me a break Bezos!

Tax the Rich.

as for NBC, you know what you're doing.

He’s a villain. We can see it. No villainizing necessary.

I ordered something off ebay, and the seller fkn dropped shipped it from amazon - i was SO PISSED

is one the bigger challenges spending hundreds of millions to spend Katy Perry's ass to pseudospace for 5 minutes

Wellllllll one way to find out

Even if it doesn't help any teachers, it would mean Bezos is slightly less wealthy. And so would be a huge win.

I do think Mandy Rice - Davies applies here. If he was saying the opposite it would definitely be more newsy.

I could list hundreds of ways to help the average American with that money.

So... he just chose violence then?

Pretty much all of the bigger challenges the US faces are caused by the ultra-wealthy lmao what a whiney bitch

Billionaires need to be stripped of *everything*

I always love the "I'll do my part when everything else gets fixed" promise. It's like Wimpy saying he'll pay for his cheeseburger, not on Tuesday, but once we reach Star Trek levels of societal participation. [frog_pitchfork img]

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US tax policy has never been a “wedge issue.” It’s a central/core/nucleus component of everyday life

Taxes are the reasonable option. The alternative is much worse as shown over and over throughout history!! Help correct the power inequality, or the people will correct it without the wealthy's input

Billionare says "pls dont tax me" 🥺

Oh honey I'm so embarrassed for you, you used to do news.

k well I don't give a fuck what that bald-headed bitch says, and I don't know anyone who does.

The ultra-wealthy have no one but themselves to blame for the fact that we see them for the greedy, insatiable parasites that they are.