Do you agree that If Jeff Bezos can rent out the city of Venice for his wedding, then he can pay more in taxes?

[msc545]

[NathanDavis]

it's not about being able to pay more or not

that's just how capitalism works... you reward the "strong" and bury the weak, you eat the little and become big

the bigger you are... the less you pay back in taxes... the more you bribe with lobbyism

Bezos is doing what he is allowed to do, what WE allow him to be

will I stop using Amazon and not only Amazon but the dozens of services and companies under Amazon and Bezos umbrella? no... because it is useful and convenient to me and the life I lead, I do benefit from it, because it is affordable to me

and for me to have the convenient and comfortable life that I have, thousands of people from third world countries are probably slaved and starved... would I want to pay double, triple or fair prices for their work? will you do it? will any of us do it

I don't think so, that's very unlikely... I am no better than Bezos... I'm enjoy the privileges of an unfair capitalistic system myself and so are you, lol

[MisterWack]

Do I agree a billionaire who owns Amazon, can have a fabulous overly extravagant wedding in an expensive city like Venice, and owns The Washington Post that he can afford to pay more in taxes?

Yes.

There is no reason why average everyday Americans get screwed over for their hard work and have to live paycheck to paycheck when previous generations didn’t.

It isn’t radical or extreme to demand the richest Americans (emphasis on richest) to pay more taxes and wanting average Americans to pay less taxes.
It is common sense and it saves your wallet.

Also God Damn, we need to increase wages to meet the rate of inflation as Congress USED TO DO! Our generations prior worked at a gas station from 9-5 and could afford gas, house, automobile, four children, magazine subscription, TV Channel Plan, multiple hospital bills all on ONE steady paycheck. People can’t afford that at the McDonalds across the street alone. It has been building for decades and it needs to get to a point of “enough is enough”.

[MisterWack]

I want to say this too, I don’t care who achieves it / gets it done or who preaches it successfully.
Liberal, Conservative, Moderate, Progressive, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist.
Fine by me, just get it done. Get it done because it is an American idea not a political one.

[Anonymous]

I agree. Even at 1% of his earnings would be enough to fund a 3rd world country but here's the thing these billionaires have an army of accountants and lawyers that help them dodge paying taxes. Bezos doesn't own anything a holding company does, he doesn't have earnings his foundation does.

The system is messed up, even Pelosi using her postion to earn big bucks in the stock market.

[Dongie]

He also has right and decency on his side because what he pays is quite a bit. He figured out an operation that after many years of trying and pumping more and more money into that system finally has paid off. You don't punish people for innovative thinking and for taking high-stakes risks. If you do it will kill the inventor and small business investors.

[Opinion Owner]

@Dongie you don't reward people for getting rich and bettering there own lives.

[Dongie]

You don't penalize them either.

[Opinion Owner]

@Dongie exactly. You treat then the same as everyone else

[Dongie]

That's the same! You want to take his hard-earned money and let him live on what you live on. You don't get it so there's no use trying to explain the obvious. 😅

[msc545]

No we just wanted him to pay taxes like everybody else does and in fact he does not do that. Since he doesn't do that, that means that the rest of us have to make up the deficit that he causes by not paying taxes. In essence, we pay his taxes.

[Dongie]

That's not correct msc. The top 1% pays 40.4% of taxes and that is more than the bottom 90% combined. I'm sure it costs them a fortune to keep it at that amount.

[msc545]

@Dongie 40.4 % of taxes on WHAT, exactly? They game the system by having only assets which are not taxable, and little or no taxable income.

[Dongie]

Income tax

[msc545]

@Dongie on paper they have very little or no income. Just assets that they borrow against.

[Dongie]

They have high overhead and income tax is at the top of the list. That's why the high-dollar attorneys. I get what you're saying. They get out of a lot of it but still pay a lot.

[Opinion Owner]

I agree. If they were paying the tax they should like they were in the 50s the economy would be in such shit. Were basically in feudalism 2.0

[Dongie]

They pay a higher percentage than any of us do on a lot more than all of us combined. Imagine soon you invent something and become the first trillionaire then the public protests and the IRS takes 2/3 if it away. How are you going to feel?

[msc545]

@Dongie They get more out of it than they reasonably should.

[Dongie]

So what? They still pay 1000s of times more than you do and they work much harder and longer than you do. You think the more you make the less you work. Go read up on how ge started Amazon. You work and gamble your hard earned money only to stay level by paying more in taxes.

[msc545]

@Dongie You are right. Sailing those huge yachts and all the red tape with renting Venice is hard work.

[Dongie]

Whatever smarty! Go read up on what it took to have the pleasure of sailing those yachts. I'll never understand how people can be jealous of what others worked for.

[msc545]

@Dongie keep bending over and taking it up the ass from people who are stealing from you.

[dustybiker2]

He can. Why would he want to?

Population control seems to be a thing with this insanity. Rid the country of color, poor and unhealthy. It even came with a handbook it was so obvious. These lonely elite will be living in a trash heap and nobody to care for them or clean up. Having money didn't make them any smarter.

[OneViewpoint]

Yes, how much more out of control are we going to let these rich parasites feeding off society with no participation in paying for it all become? The wealth gap in the USA is punishing 95% of the population to benefit 5%. That is unsustainable. It always ends in blood. "The People" need to take back control of our government and purge all the laws that these Oligarchs have put in place to make sure they can steal the wealth of the nation legally. It all needs to be wiped out and a wealth tax established to reclaim 40 years of robbery from the people. The trouble is we allow morons to vote. And they keep believing that people like Bezos are gonna take care of them somehow. Despite decades of evidence to the contrary.

[msc545]

Unless something changes radically, which is unlikely, this is going to end in blood.

[msc545]

The right wants this and is doing everything they can to provoke it.

[BadApple69]

No. The amount of his wealth has nothing to do with the amount of tax he pays. I would bet that the amount of tax he pays in a year is more than all the money you’ll make in a lifetime. The leftist talking point that the rich don’t pay their fair share is BS.
The top 5% income earners paid 61% of the tax. 47% of Americans don’t pay any tax (that’s out of the 95%). Stop listening to the crazed leftist… they are just lying to you.
You want “fair”. Make it a flat tax. Everyone pays 10% of their income… period. You earn $3000 a year you pay $300. You earn a $1 million you pay $100k


That’s fair.

[Fireguy17]

nope, he can afford to hire people to make sure that he doesn't have to, and they are also a deduction.
It is quite possible that one of his companies paid for it, not him personally.
So, while us average people tend to pay and pay and pay, many billionaires pay very little to none or a lot depending on their losses or gains.

[AviatorTom]

Bezos, like most ultra-rich, already pay a lot in taxes. People complain that they don't pay their fair share, because the percentage of their wealth is less than most other people.

But look at the facts. In the US, more than 60% of the total dollar value of taxes are paid by the top 5% of the wealthy. 95% of tax payers pay less than 40% of the total taxes.

[lightbulb27]

I don't know what he pays in taxes.

probably can...

I question taxes on income for them... they retain billions in assets... because stupid people bought their stock and products...

[alice55]

I agree, if someone can pay 80 % of tax and still be more rich than 99 of the world then he should pay more.

[slatyb]

He can, it's up to Congress to change the tax code. I would to see the Trump tax cuts, Bush tax cuts, and Reagan tax cuts repealed. MAGA talks as if the 1950's were great. In the 1950's the top marginal tax rate was 90%.

[exitseven]

Sure, he is a billionaire and could afford it.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Yes, but Trump and Co. will shield Bezos and his greedy like from doing their civic duty to aid their country.

[purplepoppy]

The amount of tax you pay should be in accordance to the laws of the land.

[Dongie]

Im no fan of Jeff Bezos but that's not a reason to tax him more. It would be the same as taxing him because you are jealous of his wealth. Or whatever reason you have for disliking him.

[DonaldDarko]

No, I don't believe in that commie shit. It's theft.

[Anonymous]

Hell Yes, the rotten motherfucker needs to pay more taxes.

[Pohjolan]

Obviously. Guy is evading taxes to the extent that your average McDonald's worker pays more by percentage.

[Anonymous]

Sure but the pension funds big on Amazon won't like it

[thegreenyogi]

Of course.

[Anonymous]

Yes he can.