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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBezos Praises Manchin for Sabotaging Biden/Dem Agenda
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/bezos-praises-manchin-blocking-bidens-corporate-tax-hike"Biden's plan was to make billionaires and corporations pay their fair share in taxes, and use that money to help families," said one critic. "Of course a billionaire owner of a $1.1 trillion corporation doesn't like that."
JULIA CONLEY
May 16, 2022
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' praise for Sen. Joe Manchin's obstruction of his own party's anti-poverty and climate action agenda "tells you everything you need to know" about the right-wing Democratic lawmaker, progressive organizers said Sunday as Bezos weighed in on inflation and government spending.
Bezos tweeted that the West Virginia Democrat saved the Biden administration "from themselves" by standing in the way of passing a methane fee and other far-reaching climate action, paid family leave, an extension of the Child Tax Credit, and other measures in the Build Back Better Act.
Since Manchin announced last December that he would not back the bill, he has called on his party to focus its spending proposal on reducing the federal deficit and easing inflation, which has pushed the prices of goods up by more than 8% in the last year.
As Common Dreams reported last month, Securities and Exchange Commission filings for 100 U.S. companies revealed that wealthy corporations have used inflation as a pretext for raising prices while boosting their profits.
Bezos' praise of Manchin came two days after he took aim at President Joe Biden for demanding that corporations "pay their fair share" in taxes to help bring down inflation.
The Build Back Better Act would have used revenue from higher taxes on corporations and the wealthiest Americans to invest in its anti-poverty and climate provisions. The president has criticized Amazon for its tax practices; the company effectively paid no federal taxes in 2017 and 2018 despite raking in hundreds of billions of dollars in sales revenue.
Bezos tweeted that the West Virginia Democrat saved the Biden administration "from themselves" by standing in the way of passing a methane fee and other far-reaching climate action, paid family leave, an extension of the Child Tax Credit, and other measures in the Build Back Better Act.
Since Manchin announced last December that he would not back the bill, he has called on his party to focus its spending proposal on reducing the federal deficit and easing inflation, which has pushed the prices of goods up by more than 8% in the last year.
As Common Dreams reported last month, Securities and Exchange Commission filings for 100 U.S. companies revealed that wealthy corporations have used inflation as a pretext for raising prices while boosting their profits.
Bezos' praise of Manchin came two days after he took aim at President Joe Biden for demanding that corporations "pay their fair share" in taxes to help bring down inflation.
The Build Back Better Act would have used revenue from higher taxes on corporations and the wealthiest Americans to invest in its anti-poverty and climate provisions. The president has criticized Amazon for its tax practices; the company effectively paid no federal taxes in 2017 and 2018 despite raking in hundreds of billions of dollars in sales revenue.
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Bezos Praises Manchin for Sabotaging Biden/Dem Agenda (Original Post)
CousinIT
May 2022
OP
It's Amazon's twitch the right-wing pos terrorist streamed from. There are other rw pos on there
rockfordfile
May 2022
#1
No more Amazon at my house. Cancelled. I can support local and honest companies instead.
Ziggysmom
May 2022
#4
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)1. It's Amazon's twitch the right-wing pos terrorist streamed from. There are other rw pos on there
NewHendoLib
(60,021 posts)2. Fuck Bezos. And...Manchin.
2naSalit
(86,794 posts)3. Stop feeding these monsters, please.
onethatcares
(16,185 posts)5. agreed
shop local, shop a company.
bezos just takes a piece of every company and every dollar they make. Like a crime boss but he calls it the free market system.
2naSalit
(86,794 posts)6. Exactly.
I refuse to sign up for it, I ask others not to give me stuff they buy there. I relative has a registry there and their parents and I flat out refuse to buy anything there. One looked at the list on the registry and we all got something from the list but not through Analzone.
Ziggysmom
(3,413 posts)4. No more Amazon at my house. Cancelled. I can support local and honest companies instead.
2naSalit
(86,794 posts)7. Fuck that guy.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)8. Gonna drop Amazon - sux cuz I live an hour from ANYTHING
But manchin praise seals the deal.