Bloomberg: "Congratulations, Bernie, on Being Rich"

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22. You just threw a lot of stuff up against the wall. Let me try to dissect it.

The GOP tax cuts were a giveaway to corporations and the elite rich (which Bernie is not part of), no sane person should argue that it was not. We need to reverse those changes as fast as possible, but that will require a strong majority in the House, a working majority in the Senate and a President who will sign the bill reversing the cuts (everyone in the race has said they would sign such a bill as President).

Personhood of a corporation is a stupid concept that was oked by a rightwing Supreme Court majority. Corporations have no real existence outside of taxing entities. They are a collection of people, but each of those people already have full rights as a citizen (if you look at the ideal interpretation, reality is different).

CEO pay in this country is way out of line to the CEO's impact on the company most of the time. There are CEOs that ARE the company since without them the company would cease to exist. And yes, corporate boards are packed with insiders, lackeys or people that are glad to get paid to be on the board and won't make waves.

But none of that covers why Amazon could legally not pay any taxes on $11 billion of profits. If you forced them to, that is changing the rules midstream.