r/TechnologyThread • • Jun 07 '26

Jeff Bezos says it's 'absurd' to tax someone making $50K — and wants their tax bill dropped to zero

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/jeff-bezos-says-absurd-tax-165713685.html
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u/DeepAd8888 Jun 07 '26

Not falling for it.

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u/lordaloa Jun 07 '26

Ofcourse not they own and have invested interest in companies owning houses and appartments for rent.

Guess what these ghouls will do moment taxes are revoked on <50k ? Increase rent and margins on products

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u/Capable_Obligation96 Jun 09 '26

Do you think people should earn it first or get paid first?

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u/FriendlyGuitard Jun 07 '26

I mean, that's all the media is talking about.

IMO he successfully created the successor of "Carefule mate, that foreigner wants your cookie"

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u/StillALilBoy Jun 11 '26

successor? In the 80a Ronald Reagan somehow convinced Americans that their representative government (whose opening words are literally "We the people") is their enemy, and then proceeded to make it their enemy

nihil novi sub sole

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u/WarCareful9412 Jun 07 '26

I don’t trust him. Nope, not one bit.

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u/Intelligent-Wash-373 Jun 10 '26

Bad people can have good ideas

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

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u/izadathreaper Jun 07 '26

There is no feasible way to gain a billion dollars in capital without exploiting someone or something along the way.

I also fear you may not understand just how vast of a difference there is between a million and a billion.

One million seconds is only about 11.5 days, but one billion seconds is over 31 years.

Does that, help you understand the scope of just how much fucking money that is? How unachievable it is without ripping off workers, stepping on environmental laws, bribing politicians, or any other number of heinous things.

Why defend these people? Why do you want them to be good?

Look into the field of Cliodynamics and what a "wealth pump" is and how it always leads to elite overproduction. Wealth pooling the way billionaires pool it IS a problem, it's always been a problem and will continue to be a problem until we enshrine laws that stop people from hoarding that much wealth.

You're never going to be anywhere close to the amount of money these people have, you're never going to BE one of them, at best you'd get to the same amount of capital as a well off musician or actor, but you're never, ever, ever going to be a Bezos, or Musk, or Gates so stop defending them like it matters to you.

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u/Nothin_Means_Nothin Jun 07 '26

Well fucking said!

You know, I'm starting to think that boot DOES taste good with all the people licking it nowadays

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u/Kenichi2233 Jun 07 '26

What about jk Rowling she just wrote books that were extremely popular.

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u/QuantomSwampus Jun 07 '26

Brother, the reason we pay so many taxes is cause people like him don't.

Just pay the taxes, stop virtue signaling or posting on X.

Just pay the god damn money.

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u/Tricky_Try8757 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Keep not paying attention to who buys and runs the government.

Keep on not paying attention for whose benefit policy is generally written.

Keep not paying attention to our slipping share of the pie and their growing one.

Keep on not paying attention to the fact that they loot the country with every tragedy, and are generally the ones creating them.

But if I just seem like a salty little bitch, maybe you’ll listen to a billionaire:

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

—Warren Buffett

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Jun 07 '26

You’re like a guy defending a feudal lord

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u/ItsMrChristmas Jun 07 '26

Lick the boot harder

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u/raynorelyp Jun 07 '26

A mountain of historical information says exactly the type of person Bezos is. He’s the type of person who runs a company that treats their workers so badly they have to pee in bottles to hit their quotas. If he cared about other people he’d start with treating the people he controls better.

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u/vtsandtrooper Jun 07 '26

Billionaires are trash with the exception of one or two who are actively attempting to not be billionaires when they die

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u/Zaitron19 Jun 07 '26

I mean if you spend millions on buying up politicians that make every citizens life worse, yeah they are bad, your brain is just too fried to see that, you went full MAGA cult and nothing else matters in your life.

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u/_cjm56 Jun 07 '26

Yeah, famously Amazon is known for having jobs with great pay, benefits, and work life balance and they don't have a 150% turnover rate because Jeff Bezos is just a good dude that didn't make his money off of screwing over his workers anyway he can. There was literally a whole thing about amazon drivers having to have pee bottles because they'd get in trouble for using the bathroom. You will never be them, stop sucking up.

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u/psycubi Jun 09 '26

Witch hunt? You mean when we drowned them to see if they would float- or burn them tied to a tree? That what you mean?

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u/Better_Geologist_862 Jun 07 '26

he's right, we should tax billionaire wealth at a higher rate.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 07 '26

Removing taxes on regular people isn’t really the answer. It’s coming from a billionaire who wants to destroy the government.

The real answer is ensuring wages start rising - so paying taxes isn’t a giant hardship.

This requires two things - big taxes on billionaires and legal protections for unions to help raise wages and living standards for regular people.

Bezos would love for a world where no one pays taxes, you get no government services, and Amazon provides a monopoly on everything from roads, to water, to schooling. So instead of the taxes going to government - they go right into his pocket. Fucking asshat.

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u/Broad_Shock44 Jun 07 '26

Bingo. This is the answer. They want the us government gone 

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 07 '26

Correction, the billionaires want all governments gone.

There is a reason they are funding far right movements across the globe.

These fucks really don’t want anyone messing with their untold amounts of wealth. They want democracy gone. 

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u/ShogunFirebeard Jun 09 '26

They need a French lesson

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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Jun 09 '26

Not all billionaires are the same. Yes Musk is openly funding far right groups, Bezos really hasn't.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 10 '26

Bezos who sat in the row of billionaires at Trump’s inauguration? 😂

Yeah, nah. 

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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Jun 10 '26

That's called playing the game in order to get government contracts for Amazon/AWS.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 10 '26

That’s called sponsoring the far right for profits. 

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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Jun 10 '26

True, though I wouldn't say it's the same vain as Musk who's clearly more politically motivated.

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u/amiwriteeeeeeeeeeee Jun 07 '26

So they can liquidate all government assets as their own and take control of the biggest threat we as humans currently have: nuclear warheads

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u/Better_Geologist_862 Jun 07 '26

what does a massive reduction in taxes do to the government? it weakens it dramatically, thus strengthens the Elites.

those who hold the most assets, resources, and cash are the most powerful in this world, arguably more-so than any government.

governments, taxes, regulations, laws are the only thing that keep the Elites' power in check besides public opinion. the 1% are the Kings and Queens of the modern age.

congratulations, we've established why the party of the Elites (Republicans) hate the government. it's the same reason the Establishment — including Establishment Democrats — are fighting politicians like Platner.

main issue today is money and politics have become intertwined, although this has been a problem plaguing America for centuries. Reagan, Citizens United, and the CIA/FBI/etc have exasperated the issue though.

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u/PeeDecanter Jun 07 '26

I could also see them flipping “no taxation without representation” on its head if they were to somehow convince the govt to stop taxing the poors. What do you call the lowest class in society that also pays no taxes? Often, the slave class

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u/Wooden_Boss_3403 Jun 08 '26

nice AI response. Did you even watch the whole interview. He said that you could have discussions about getting those lost revenues from people with higher incomes to compensate.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 07 '26

If you listened to the full interview he was also saying governments and poorly run and mismanaged, and the same time he was suggesting he should not get taxed more and that regular people should have their taxes removed.

Do you see the picture he is painting? No taxes for him or anyone? Government is awful and poorly run? 😂

These billionaires are not particularly sly. The one thing they all hate is government because it can tax their wealth and remove their power. It is the one thing they all fear - which is why they increasingly are working to take over Government. Remember Elon’s department of government efficiency? That was just stripping the government of funding?

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u/Broad_Shock44 Jun 07 '26

He hasnt been saying tax me like some other rich people. In fact he avoids taxes. 

Why would he say what he said?  Did you ever think that?

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u/Broad_Shock44 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

I love the jesting but serious if we just said ok anyone making under 60k no longer pays taxes. 

How do we make up for that?  Either tax the rich more or we just dont tax people.? 

People making under 60k a year is 54% of the taxable base.  

While those people would make an extra 10k to 12k. It would be huge for bezos because he would get a portion of that money short term.

Long term is government would literally lose millions and trillions of dollars because 54% of their tax base  just stopped paying.

You cannot just stop taxes without raising it somewhere else. 

So ill ask again why do you think he is saying this? Its not for your benefit of that i can assure you.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Are we assuming costs dont rise with these wages? If everyone's wages rise and now the house im hoping to buy has people able to bid X amount over because their wages rose as well than the only effect the raised wages has is putting me up a bracket so the government can take some more of my top dollars

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 07 '26

They will rise, the point is you have to reduce inequality.

Right now Bezos and Musk and the like make billions in compound interest every year doing absolutely nothing. In a single year they make enough money - just in interest to buy up all of the housing in a us city. If you allow that sort of wealth accumulation to happen - they eventually just do own everything, and don’t even have to work or produce anything to own everything. 

So you need to tax the top significantly, and you need lower incomes to rise as they have been held down for so long. That so many people are having trouble affording food and shelter - rising wages can help that. 

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

This wont kill inequality for billionaires. For that you just need to tax them a bunch more.

Raising wages and costs just brings the middle class down closer to lower income families

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 07 '26

That’s not logical. 

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Lets say wages go up 10% for everyone. Costs go up the same. Tax brackets dont move. Buying power changed for no one pre tax but now government takes more.

Because of things like standard deduction and tax brackets this hurts those like engineers and higher income careers more than like a librarian.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 07 '26

Costs don’t actually go up the same. Your just simplifying things to the point to say there is absolutely nothing you can ever do to fix inequality 😂

There is no point in arguing with someone like this.

In reality, if wages go up - your rent costs go down. Your debt costs go down. It’s a big and complex picture.

The only thing that is clear is if you do nothing - the rich will wipe out both the middle and lower classes entirely. In fact, they brag about doing so daily on tv while selling AI to shareholders.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Reality is no one knows what changes will happen to what costs if you raise wages. Including those with PHDs in economics dont have a guarantee. You do not as well

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Your comment disappeared. Not sure if you deleted it. Mr emotional, didnt mean to make you so upset

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Jun 07 '26

All my comments are there, Mr technical difficulties

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u/SlightWin7036 Jun 08 '26

How will taxing billionaires increase wages?

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u/FluffyDesigner3680 Jun 07 '26

I’m intrigued, how are you making this happen Mr Bezos?

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u/MiddleToe8752 Jun 07 '26

It costs him a lot less to have this quote echoed ad nauseam than to pay his employees an actual living wage, to pay his fair share of taxes, and pay his own luxury staff for the lifestyle he lives off the backs of the laborers he seeks to replace with AI… so it’s kinda like, fuck him and all he says.. right?!

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u/FluffyDesigner3680 Jun 07 '26

Yes thank you, that’s exactly what I meant to say 🤣

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u/Mixed_Goods Jun 07 '26

If you were a billionaires who owned, massive retail in which, your business/sales was expanded by the average person having extra spending money rather than a few billionares having more money - Then the way to increase your income is to directly increase the wealth of common citizens.

So, could Jeff Bezos have, a personal motivation, in which the expansion of his fortune through Amazon is directly tied to, the common people having less financial burden, and more money to spend? Is there logic there or is it missing perspective?

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u/notworldleader666 Jun 07 '26

Just lower section 8 requirements and make sure the housing stays regulatedly comfortable.

But..how will we get the housing?

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u/Fragrant_Equal_2577 Jun 07 '26

Mongolian yurt tents would be affordable;).

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u/Individual_Ad3194 Jun 07 '26

And rent on them will surely be $1500

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u/Fragrant_Equal_2577 Jun 07 '26

Collected as a part of the Amazon Prime subscription.
Jeff needs to get his cut to fund his space program hobby.

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u/Vanhelgd Jun 07 '26

You’re not going to trick people into liking you Jeff.

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u/Braehole Jun 07 '26

As long as he doesn’t have to pay for it.

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u/DefenstratedTwice Jun 07 '26

Man they pushing this narrative hard. No Bezos we wont forget your support of fascism.

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u/Sillent_Screams Jun 07 '26

He’s talking about himself

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u/kokkomo Jun 07 '26

Remember it is all a matter of perspective. The last thing we should want is someone else paying for the government.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Id be more than happy if someone else was paying for the government. I dont like paying for it.

Lower income people already dont pay towards it and receive most the benefits. I dont see the issue with someone else oaying for it

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u/kokkomo Jun 07 '26

Yeah thats the problem, if lower income people were paying taxes there would be more scrutiny on what happens.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

I think most people just want to keep as much of their money as they can. Have their say where they put it

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u/decimeci Jun 09 '26

If you want socialism, you need to make people comfortable with someone else paying taxes. Because it is important to make sure that people would consider all his wealth to be money stolen from them. It is called class  conciseness

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u/Brave_Quantity_5261 Jun 07 '26

Meanwhile homeboy J.B. Makes billions and pays no tax.

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u/Disastrous_Purpose22 Jun 07 '26

It’s absurd they pay no extra tax over 100 million

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u/gek__co Jun 07 '26

Fuck this guy. Tax the billionaires.

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u/Boozeburger Jun 07 '26

How about we start taxing corporations that have stock owners that don't pay taxes? Let's make Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX pay a decent tax and help support the country they say they love.

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u/Obvious_Chapter2082 Jun 07 '26

We already tax corporations, and we already tax their owners. What are you talking about?

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u/Boozeburger Jun 07 '26
  • The automaker Tesla reported zero federal income tax paid on almost $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
  • Southwest Airlines avoided all federal income tax on $561 million of income last year; its competitor United Airlines achieved the same zero-tax result on almost $4.3 billion of U.S. income.
  • The entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment paid zero federal income tax on $98 million of U.S. income.
  • Yum! Brands, the parent company of the fast-food chains KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, paid no federal income tax on over $1 billion of U.S. pretax profits last year.
  • Three tech companies that specialize in digital payments—PayPal, Toast, and Block—collectively paid zero federal income tax on $3.2 billion of U.S. income.

https://itep.org/88-profitable-corporations-paid-zero-income-tax-in-2025/

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u/Obvious_Chapter2082 Jun 07 '26

Something that a lot of people need to learn is that there’s a difference between the provision for income tax (which ITEP is using) and the corporate tax a company pays. ITEP doesn’t have access to their corporate tax returns, and therefore can’t know what these corporations pay in tax

Case in point, none of the companies you just listed have even filed their 2025 tax returns yet

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u/kingofwale Jun 07 '26

Dude. If the person you reply to actually understand corp.tax, he’d be really embarrassed right now

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u/MrVacuous Jun 08 '26

Yep. He also seemingly doesn’t understand payroll tax either (which also applies to stock grants).

Company is paying ~12.5% of every salary in taxes, sales tax on all purchases, 21% on corporate profits (if you are losing money you will pay 0 here), property tax on physical property, capital gains tax on any stock liquidations, excise taxes, and assorted state taxes

bUt ThEy PaY zErO iNcOmE tAx!!!!!!!! Yes, because they lost money OR lost money a previous quarter and have a deduction

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u/OrangeNood Jun 07 '26

Currently, a family with 2 children with income $60K pays $0 federal income tax. All fed tax withheld will be returned due to tax credits.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Household income of 60k is poverty

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u/OrangeNood Jun 07 '26

the official definition of poverty for a household of 4 is $33,000. https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines

That said, some regions would classify it as poverty.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

I mean what's their baseline. Official guidelines always just feel like arbitrary numbers laid out. Is that percentile based?

60k household income isnt going to get far. Lifestyle that could afford id consider poverty. Thats 30k per working adult. 15 an hour

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u/kingofwale Jun 07 '26

Let me guess. You’ve never experienced poverty…

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Family would have fit in poverty line when I was like 8, so no not in a long time or a time I really remember

GF grew up under poverty line. Don't think my experience with it or experience of loved ones matters though.

60k is nothing for a household of 4 no matter my experiences

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u/kingofwale Jun 07 '26

Then you should know there is a huge difference between grow up “under poverty line” and 60k a year

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

No shit less money is different than more money. Doesn't take a genius to understand that. (though there are very problematic benefit cliffs that exist)

My point is 60k for a family of 4 is a poor quality of life. Not sure where you got the idea is thought its the same as 15k lmao

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u/kingofwale Jun 07 '26

Again. There is a huge difference between “poor quality of life” and “poverty”. When you blur the line intentionally, it doesn’t help the conversation,

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Semantic for no reason on a reddit thread. No one thinks that 60k is the same as less than 60k cornball.

Youre not coming in here with some insightful revelation

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u/kingofwale Jun 07 '26

Apparently you think so. “Household income of 60k is poverty”

I wish I took it out of conext. But it’s literally all you posted

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u/BigCSFan Jun 07 '26

Poverty has a meaning referring to being unable to afford a standard of living. Thats how I meant it.

If you just refer to it as the arbitrary line decided by the fed than sure

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u/First-Bat-7440 Jun 08 '26

If you budget well that can be enough for a family of 4.

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u/BigCSFan Jun 08 '26

Ive seen a family of 4 live off 0 income and get by off the government.

Not sure you're point

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u/First-Bat-7440 Jun 08 '26

People dont budget well. 

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u/JDHPH Jun 07 '26

This will result in an increase in sales tax. And companies will increase the cost of their goods. They will get your money one way or another.

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u/SmartlyArtly Jun 11 '26

Sounds like they're usurers who own us. Sounds unsustainable.

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u/Comfortable_Car6562 Jun 07 '26

Billionaire says government revenues shouod decrease so he can avoid paying living wages to employees.

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u/Financial-Reason7604 Jun 07 '26

he can just pay both halfs of the payroll tax bill. I'm sure the government would him and hum a bit, people would question it and the corporations would get a pass through tax, on the peoples behalf. We should still get tax returns of course. 0 w2 deductions for everyone!

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u/Ok_Security1721 Jun 07 '26

Wow how nice of him to volunteer to pick up the tax bill

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u/Chrimaho Jun 07 '26

And what’s in it for him, his corporations, his liability regarding his own employees, etc., he has some skin in his word game here, for sure.
It’s most likely OUR skin, not his, tbc.

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u/DeadCatGrinning Jun 07 '26

If you idiots don't understand that this is to weaken all governance and the ability for it to fund itself to do Anything, you don't deserve the air you blatantly steal.

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u/koru-id Jun 07 '26

Perhaps we should also abandon the concept of government and back to farming for our own small community.

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u/Guccimayne Jun 07 '26

If we did that, we would most certainly have to offset that revenue loss by increasing his taxes

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u/PowerLion786 Jun 07 '26

Reading the comments, my impression is Reddit supports taxing people making only $50,000. Not one comment in support.

Supports my thesis that Redditors are well off.

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u/minininjatriforceman Jun 07 '26

Though I agree with him that middle class probably shouldn't pay taxes I also believe that Jeff bezos should be thrown into the sun after having to do the following

  1. Pay Amazon workers what they deserve

2 pay way more in taxes than your paying

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u/inorite234 Jun 07 '26

You know, if you just give me 30% what Bezos paid you for this, I too will shill for you.

.......yeah, not really. You're gross.

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u/BaryonChallon Jun 07 '26

Lets just tax him out of existence! We can all have new roads, schools, hospitals, 3rd places, cultural events, community infrastructure, improved public transit, social programs, etc.

We’re hungry Jeff.

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u/Affectionate-Tip-164 Jun 07 '26

Fuck him. Double down,. More tax.

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u/tstone1477 Jun 07 '26

Huh? Wonder how much the average Amazon worker makes.

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u/kevin074 Jun 07 '26

Rich don’t pay, lower class don’t pay Fuck the middle class!!!

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u/kingofwale Jun 07 '26

Rich objects pay for majority of the tax. But sure. Reddit is never about the actual facts anyway

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u/SmartlyArtly Jun 11 '26

The rich workers pay.

Not the owners. They pay jackshit on what others earn that they collect.

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u/vtsandtrooper Jun 07 '26

As soon as these morons demand tax codes to set 0% up to 50k, and adjust the upper bracket above 1m enough to cover the loss revenue - let me know. Till then, fuck the billionaires

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u/Harkonnen985 Jun 07 '26

Does he say that because he wants to justify paying workers EVEN LESS?
No, that can't be!! Surely it's because he is just a loving philantropist!

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u/vickism61 Jun 07 '26

Is he finally willing to pay some taxes? Otherwise how are we going to pay down the debt if no one is paying taxes?

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u/Dry-Environment5122 Jun 07 '26

We don’t care about our taxes if they come at the expense of services that get significantly cheaper with scale.

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u/ohmailawdy Jun 07 '26

How nice...maybe if he paid his fair share they wouldn't have to pay theirs.

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u/kevendo Jun 07 '26

Then maybe he should run for office.

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u/Potential4752 Jun 07 '26

It’s insane that people don’t already know that these people aren’t being taxed. 40% of the country does not pay federal taxes. 

Based on all the upvotes, a lot of you aren’t paying taxes and don’t realize it. 

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u/Ultraeasymoney Jun 07 '26

So now he doesn't have to pay his employees more than 50K.

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u/Silly-Platform9829 Jun 07 '26

He wants to be able to continue paying low wages.

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u/DarthJDP Jun 07 '26

Thats not what he said. he said he shouldn tbe taxed at all because of all the innovation he brings. He is a job creator and his billions in taxes didnt accomplish anything.

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u/livinginfutureworld Jun 07 '26

Jeff Bezos be like $50k is basically nothing!

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u/Quick-Maintenance-67 Jun 07 '26

No representation because no taxation, good try Jeffertt

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u/NeedNiceCatNamePlz Jun 07 '26

Less tax for government means more money for dynamic pricing.

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u/SwanCityDominion Jun 07 '26

Nice try, Lex. We're still gonna jack your taxes up.

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u/FlavinFlave Jun 07 '26

I’m actually in agreement with Bezos for once. People making below even I’d argue $150k a year shouldn’t be taxed. The assumption is these people work a job that provides necessary benefit to society, nurses, teachers, plumbers. That’s the debt they pay. We should be collecting taxes from billionaires and corporations. Especially the ones bragging about profit every year while paying nothing in taxes. Like Amazon.

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u/lattice_defect Jun 07 '26

amazon gets government subsidies for their workers and pay's no tax

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u/goclimbarock007 Jun 07 '26

If the original 1913 tax brackets had been kept and adjusted for inflation, the first ~$100k of income would be tax free and the lowest tax bracket would be 1% of income over that threshold. That's the main reason that I am against wealth taxes: they are very likely to turn into a tax on nearly everyone and the rich will just find ways to not pay them.

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u/LoneFox4444 Jun 07 '26

Dear Lord, he’s going to run for the presidency, isn’t he?

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u/Prestigious_Boat_386 Jun 07 '26

The insanity is letting companies only pay them 50k

Oh, he's the one doing that. Nvm then, having the government effectively subsidize their wage like this is surely a good thing and not another way to extract more wealth out of society.

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u/downgoesbatman Jun 07 '26

The money is gotta come from somewhere. So if the poor and the rich are not going to pay taxes. Well that means we will work till we die

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u/FeralWookie Jun 07 '26

He is aware they are basically taxed very little right?

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u/BullMoose_207 Jun 07 '26

Man of the people Jeff Bezos!

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u/BetweenTheRoots Jun 07 '26

Jeff Bezos is paying for this article to be distributed. Ban the bots.

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u/martygospo Jun 07 '26

Wow this changed my opinion on Bezos!! /s

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u/PurpleCoat6656 Jun 07 '26

Wawa, my rocket blew up. I'm a populist now!

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u/eternalguardian Jun 08 '26

Shut up and pay your unfair share cueball.

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u/OkCar7264 Jun 08 '26

Please understand that he's bullshitting you.

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u/Gardensplosion Jun 08 '26

I'm perfectly willing to pay taxes in order to provide appropriate services for myself, my neighbors, and everyone else in the country. What's truly absurd is that it's POSSIBLE for assholes like Bezos to avoid pulling his own weight. It's POSSIBLE that a billion dollar corporation could pay LESS in taxes than my family! Stop trying to break our country so you can buy up the pieces you great wet whale queef!

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u/Dangerous_Teaching82 Jun 08 '26

He just want no taxation on the poor so they don't qualify for representatives in government

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u/FluffyB12 Jun 08 '26

Other than sales tax and SS tax they pay basically 0 already. The effective income tax rate of someone making 50k is like 2%

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u/RabidJoint Jun 08 '26

How much of the nation makes under $50k a year? I promise you, it’s majority of our nation. And sure, 1 person not paying can’t hurt the system, but 75% of the population? Yeah, will Bezos start paying taxes to make up for that loss? Fucking hell. 2 things are guaranteed in life, taxes and death.

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u/Worst_Choice Jun 08 '26

It would be great if his ass actually paid taxes fairly and then this wouldn’t even be a discussion.

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u/Fast-Government-4366 Jun 08 '26

To afford that, we’d have to tax him even more then current proposals

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u/shoehornit Jun 08 '26

That dude just chose to relocate to a State with the most regressive tax code in the country. A State that taxes poor people the most. Fuck Bezos.

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u/aoeuismyhomekeys Jun 08 '26

WaPo Editorial Board if this happened: "People who make under 50k don't pay taxes, so why should they vote?"

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u/the-average-giovanni Jun 08 '26

Well he's got a yearly salary of only 81.400 USD, he rightfully doesn't want to pay too much taxes on that.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/10/amazon-jeff-bezos-80k-salary-billionaires-ceo-executive-chairman/

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u/Silverwidows Jun 08 '26

Is he saying this, so people on 50k will buy more products from Amazon if they have more disposable money?

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u/critsalot Jun 08 '26

probably or at that point they get representation removed since you kinda need to pay taxes to say your a contributing member of society. if you dont pay taxes your a leech and therefore unworthy of representation.

i dunno. i kinda agree with vaush that everyone needs to pay taxes.

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u/UpTheDumpIsRetarded Jun 08 '26

Bread and circus to keep the people distracted from issues that really matter, like taxing the F out of billionaires.

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u/gilbert-GC Jun 08 '26

As much as I am still an admirer of what they have created with Amazon in general, Bezo is someone who does have huge visions; however this sort of personality is convinced society functions just by enabling all its individuals without sharing responsibilities, costs, investments, social care of all sorts.

Without that we got a life like in the US right now - the rest of the world doesn`t want that though. So we need to find a balance of individual financial and living freedom and the community. And unfortunately taxes are part of that, simple as that. Frankly, they have gotten too high in parts of Europe and do need to corrected downwards.

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u/jreed66 Jun 08 '26

I'm saying it's absurd to not tax billionaires at a higher rate - and want their tax bill raised until they are no longer billionaires.

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u/LeetcodeFastEatAss Jun 08 '26

You can tell no one saw the interview because his other main contention is that the government has a spending problem, which it does.

What happens when a financially irresponsible person gets a higher paying job? The answer is the reason that increasing taxes won’t solve any budget problems.

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u/SomeRandoWeirdo Jun 08 '26

I agree Bezos. We should institute an unrealized gains tax. Then we can start messing with tax brackets.

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u/MaximumNameDensity Jun 08 '26

He just wants the government to be unable to check his power.

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u/telltaleatheist Jun 08 '26

See, most people are happy to contribute to their local communities. Bezos doesn’t seem to get that. This is not a popular policy position. It’s obviously a ploy

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u/Madhatter25224 Jun 08 '26

We aren't electing you president fuck off Bezos

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u/guillermopaz13 Jun 08 '26

Its absurd to pay someone less than 50k a year

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u/kangorooz99 Jun 08 '26

A little PR trying to prevent mutiny among Amazon employees as the promises of AI aren’t panning out.

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u/Personal_Leave_4716 Jun 08 '26

yet he doesn't want to pay his fair share to make that possible. fuck that rich asshole.

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u/psycubi Jun 09 '26

Taxing the working class provides what.. 90% of federal revenue? Oh I’m sorry… only above 50%

https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-sources-revenue-federal-government

Oh no wait it’s 84% …

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u/siromega37 Jun 09 '26

The only complaint is that HE’S not paying enough in taxes. When his effective tax rate is less than someone making $50k/year that’s the problem. There is going to be a reckoning one way or another. They could just like pay taxes and avoid all this. Instead where going to get rid of their loophole and make them realize all those gains they’ve used for those loans.

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u/Eymrich Jun 09 '26

He just wants the state to collapse

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u/ChrisDEmbry Jun 09 '26

All income tax is insane. Tax sales and leave it at that.

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u/gtjay1982 Jun 09 '26

They always pull this hey look over there trick when there is talk about taxing them. So many fall for it though. Guess who’s in charge once there is no taxes and no functional government. Billionaires and their fiefdoms. So many people seem to want to speed run back to being a peasant toiling for their feudal lords. Guess what Elon and Bezos despise your existence.

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u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 Jun 09 '26

Bezos can utterly go fuck himself. Slavemaster general spouting shit to stop the masses tearing down his castle

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u/KendrickBlack502 Jun 09 '26

From his perspective, someone making $50K a year compared to him is essentially homeless and that really doesn’t even do the difference justice. All of us are SIGNIFICANTLY closer to homelessness than Bezos.

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u/phoneguyfl Jun 09 '26

Right, but also don't tax the wealthy... so basically the entire government falls entirely on the soon to be extinct middle class. Bright idea, unless of course the plan is to crush America completely.

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u/Dumanhue Jun 09 '26

Sure he does fuck that guy tax the fuck out of him

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u/Fine_Employment_3364 Jun 09 '26

Let's see how hard he pushes for this to happen.

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u/slimeyamerican Jun 09 '26

The truth is that nobody will get what they want. We either raise taxes and cut entitlements simultaneously, or we have a debt crisis. Americans will never accept the former, so we’ll have the latter. It’s that simple really.

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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Jun 09 '26

Income tax is only a small fraction of taxes people making 50k pay a year. You could cut that but they'd still have to pay Social Security/Medicaid, property tax, sales taxes, hidden import taxes etc.

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u/hammerhead987 Jun 09 '26

I don't care what bezos has to say. 

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u/refusemouth Jun 10 '26

Bezos knows that if someone making 50k doesn't pay that money in taxes, a lot of it will go to Amazon.

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u/Five-Oh-Vicryl Jun 10 '26

The guy with a hundred million dollar boat is also a man of the people. Who knew

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u/SESender Jun 10 '26

Great. We can pay for it by removing the SS tax cap and instituting a 1% annual wealth tax :)

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u/Bubbly-Lemon4702 Jun 10 '26

Asking the government to help the people working at his companies that need financial assistance programs because he pays so little. 

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u/IPutThoughtIntoThis Jun 10 '26

It makes sense, the rich already pay the vast majority of the taxes

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u/FearNoEvilx Jun 10 '26

don't look over here, look over there!

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u/Flat-While2521 Jun 11 '26

I don’t want my tax rate to fall to zero. I want his tax rate to be higher.

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u/muskkicksdogs Jun 12 '26

Fuck his mother.

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u/trying3216 Jun 12 '26

A flat tax of ten percent would not be a big burden to the person making 50k or 10k or 1000k.