Re:Jeff Bezos comes out in support of increased corporate taxes
by throwaway_kufu on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:17AM
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> I hear he also does a lot of charity work.
I know I shouldn’t mix the individual with the public company he founded and I don’t want to be that person that says he only does it because the tax incentives. He is a person after all and I’m sure he deals with more social pressure as a result of his status and like all people has issues that strike a cord internally. Still there is something deeply troubling about people acquiring so much wealth that put them in that situation in the first place when he wouldn’t be there without his workers and yet significant numbers of them are on food stamps paid for by taxpayers...when his company paid $0 taxes.
I know I shouldn’t mix the individual with the public company he founded and I don’t want to be that person that says he only does it because the tax incentives. He is a person after all and I’m sure he deals with more social pressure as a result of his status and like all people has issues that strike a cord internally. Still there is something deeply troubling about people acquiring so much wealth that put them in that situation in the first place when he wouldn’t be there without his workers and yet significant numbers of them are on food stamps paid for by taxpayers...when his company paid $0 taxes.