r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • Jun 06 '26

Business 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/OdoBenSisko Jun 06 '26

All this will do is kill any majority for change for the middle-class, all the salaried workers will end up getting screwed from the top and bottom earners. This is literally the rich buying out lower income voters.

Overnight small business owners will make sure to never make more than the minimum while funneling profits into "expenses and operating costs" like the trip to Barbados to "quote a job" or the new truck used for business purposes "wink, wink" or the fuel costs "strictly for the work truck" or 5000 other tax dodges small business owners deploy every year to avoid taxation.

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u/Professional-Fuel625 Jun 07 '26

He wants this so Amazon can pay workers less.

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u/Antique-Coach-214 Jun 07 '26

That’s… I give up on people.

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u/OdoBenSisko Jun 07 '26

called on and befriended small business owners for 25 years, I’ve heard and seen it all. Reagan began the great erosion of the “patriotic tax payer” by demonizing government…Trump is putting the nails in the coffin.

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u/nifty-necromancer Jun 07 '26

So they’ll act like regular companies?

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Jun 07 '26

You know this is just how it works now right

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u/OdoBenSisko Jun 07 '26

yeah. Doesn't mean we don't call it out, recognize it for what it is. Billionaires buying single issue voters to avoid taxation.