Tweet of the night:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[Blue Owl]

1. K and fucking R

[yonder]

2. Dan Price puts his money where his mouth is.

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. Hmmm. So it seems like "trickle UP" economics is working out fine for some.

**goes to front door to make sure pitch fork is sharp and torches are well soaked in kerosene**

[lastlib]

7. Trade in that *sharp* pitchfork....

..for an old rusty one. An OLD, RUSTY, manure-encrusted, tetanus- and corona-infected pitchfork. With a bent tine. We want to do this right.

[FailureToCommunicate]

13. Good point(s)

[cayugafalls]

4. I'm curious, did he actually pay $0 or was his taxes owed $0?

Taxes owed is different than paying $0, isn't it?

My question is, Did Bezos pay $0 dollars in Fed taxes or did he pay several million in taxes and then after filing with deductions, did not owe any EXTRA?

[applegrove]

5. I think the point is he paid nothing.

[cayugafalls]

10. I agree that the rich need to pay more.

To say he paid nothing is a great headline, however it is wrong.

Read the article:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

[applegrove]

19. Oh. A relative sent me the tweet as a png. I did not read the story it is

based on.

[cayugafalls]

20. And I do apologize my dear applegrove if I came across wrong. I was working at the time.

I agree most hardily with the premise of the rich paying more.

[moondust]

6. GQP: More tax cuts will fix that!

Obscene.

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. Because people on unemployment have no PR department, or lobbyists.

Clearly, they need to work on branding.

[speaknow]

9. So I guess Orange Head is pissed

cause he even paid more tax !

[secondwind]

11. This TRULY is obscene. Truly!!!

[Aussie105]

12. It's an old argument.

Don't pay taxes if you don't have to.

And there's two ways to do that.

1. Don't earn enough to need to.

2. Be rich enough to employ some smart tax lawyers who can find the bridge across the tax river.
(Why swim across the tax river if you can find a tax bridge?)

It's the tax laws at fault.

I mean, expecting these rich types to have a heart and do something they don't want to do, if they don't have to?
Goes against all that made them rich in the first place!

And close down those tax havens! Your headquarters is in Ireland, and all your business income goes there?
Nothing to do with tax breaks, right?

[NonPC]

18. You Missed #3

Hire a group of lobbyists and bribe the right people in Congress

[Magoo48]

14. The morbidly rich and their corporations

are diseased, fat ticks on the backs of the world’s working people. A considerable portion of the blood they suck ends up in politician’s pockets. These parasitic obstracities will drain the life from societies for as long as their obscene wealth flows.

[AKwannabe]

16. I've always said

The rich get richer on the backs of the poor!

Also

“Trickle down” is MEGA BULLSHIT
Don’t piss on me ASSHOLE

[area51]

15. .

[grantcart]

17. Th8s is why Warren's 2 percent tax on assets is so sensible

[live love laugh]

21. My problem w/this is that fools target Bezos like it's his fault.

He’s abiding by the law.

I’ve run into many who call him or other rich people out not understanding it’s really the fault of the legislators they elect.

The problem is tax laws.