Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
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Though the point Bezoz was raising was more of a general "but we all HATE taxes" right sort of point.
There's a group in the UK called Patriotic Millionaires that is pushing back on this idea and explicitly asking for higher tax rates for the most wealthy because they understand that the reason that they want to live in the UK is that it has a functioning society (still, mostly, despite Thatcher and her successors' sterling efforts to destroy it) and that requires investment to maintain. It also helps push back on the 'rich people will leave if you put up their taxes' narrative: they are rich people explicitly saying that they want to stay and be taxed more.
@david_chisnall @futurebird it's nice to hear that rational self-interest hasn't gone extinct yet
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@david_chisnall @futurebird Hasn't Warren Buffett been saying something similar (from the perspective of a US billionaire, no less) for decades?
(It's a bit more remarkable when coming from a billionaire, I think. They have a lot more money to spare, obviously, but it appears to be very difficult to be a billionaire and *not* also be a sociopath. It also seems that there are plenty of millionaires who aren't evil misanthropic assholes.)
Kind of, though he also justified hoarding money because he thought that his charity would be more effective if he accumulated a lot of wealth and then gave it away rather than giving it away early, completely ignoring that a lot of charity exists solely to address problems caused by hoarding of wealth.
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Kind of, though he also justified hoarding money because he thought that his charity would be more effective if he accumulated a lot of wealth and then gave it away rather than giving it away early, completely ignoring that a lot of charity exists solely to address problems caused by hoarding of wealth.
@david_chisnall @datarama @futurebird Rory Stewart once mentioned on The Rest Is Politics, that he had asked some billionaires about the hoarding vs philanthropy. Ostensibly, they tend to develop a fear of gradually losing their power and political traction as their pot of money diminishes and they descend the league table of the globally wealthy. Whatever the truth of that, it certainly must be an odd position to be in psychologically.
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
@futurebird At this point you're just being really unfair. Won't someone think of the poor billionaires /s
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
@futurebird Well, I recognize that Bezos is BSing us…. But I still want to hear more about #PicaTheCat ‘s investment opportunities!
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@futurebird Well, I recognize that Bezos is BSing us…. But I still want to hear more about #PicaTheCat ‘s investment opportunities!
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@futurebird I dunno. I hear what you’re saying, but… that face!
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I agree. Though the point Bezoz was raising was more of a general "but we all HATE taxes" right sort of point.
And dudes like him have used this point to rob out city, state and federal budgets in every way possible for decades.
"but think of the nurse in Queens" the exact type of union job with modest benefits these clowns love to eliminate and turn into gig work.
All while offering her a few hundred bucks saving on taxes while he runs off with billions.
@futurebird @david_chisnall here in Texas, once you are over (I think) 65, you no longer have to pay property tax for schools. Because obviously you obtain no benefit at that point. I've had otherwise "progressive" friends tell me since they home schooled their kids they never should have had to pay these taxes as they got no benefit.
I pointed out to one of them that he had run an accountancy firm with employees who had been to public schools. Would it have been more valuable to him to have had to teach them to read and add and subtract on his own? Nevermind the rest of society. He had never thought of it that way.
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
@futurebird I hope enough people wake up to the fact that he's engaging in such obvious misdirection meaning he's aware that he's breaking the law (yes it's all technically legal and it's considered avoidance, not evasion - it shouldn't be). He has consciousness of guilt, and he's arrogant enough to think he can hide it.
The fact that he even feels compelled to try to hide it in public instead of skipping the interview, tells me he fears the guillotine. Things are getting better.
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@futurebird I dunno. I hear what you’re saying, but… that face!
Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning.
Pica is a serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
But she's MY serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
(She just turned 18 years old!)
#picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat -
Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning.
Pica is a serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
But she's MY serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
(She just turned 18 years old!)
#picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat@futurebird amazing balance, have to chuckle looking at those little cat toes
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Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning.
Pica is a serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
But she's MY serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
(She just turned 18 years old!)
#picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat -
@futurebird amazing balance, have to chuckle looking at those little cat toes
Her feet crack me up all the time for some reason. She's just so prim and serious and yet so goofy.
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Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning.
Pica is a serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
But she's MY serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
(She just turned 18 years old!)
#picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat@futurebird @Twotired She is gorgeous!!! So pretty in the outdoor light. -
Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning.
Pica is a serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
But she's MY serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
(She just turned 18 years old!)
#picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat@futurebird @Twotired The pictures speak for themselves. Elegant.
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Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning.
Pica is a serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
But she's MY serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
(She just turned 18 years old!)
#picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat -
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@futurebird The serial scamming and cybercrime just shows she knows how to get things done. Which I’m sure will work out great for the voters.
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@futurebird Pica for president! @Twotired
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Yeah. I always end up investing in her schemes every time too. At least she tried to help me garden this morning.
Pica is a serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
But she's MY serial scammer, cybercriminal, and mastermind.
(She just turned 18 years old!)
#picathecat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #tabby #tabbycat@futurebird @Twotired She has lovely coat markings.
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