Jeff Bezos Wants to Eliminate Income Taxes for Half of America: Here’s His Plan
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Jeff Bezos walked the factory floor at Blue Origin on May 20, 2026 and used a CNBC interview to propose zero federal income tax for any American earning $75,000 a year or less. He framed wealth inequality as a government efficiency problem, anchoring his argument around a single working person. “There’s this tale of two ... Jeff Bezos Wants to Eliminate Income Taxes for Half of America: Here’s His Plan

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In an interview the founder of Scamazon is trying to move the discussion around wealth taxes away from himself and his Epstein class. He’s only got one thing right of the “Tax Wealth, Not Work” movement namely, don’t tax work. Wealth still has to tax wealth, otherwise it won’t solve anything.

  • atro_city@fedia.ioOP
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    1 month ago

    The thing is, the rich don’t have income (at least on paper). An income tax on the rich is useless therefore. We need to tax their wealth, which is what makes them rich.

    But otherwise, I share your ire. Fuck these dudes not paying their fair share.