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Jeff Bezos is so much more boring, lame and devoid of personality than a Bond Villain though it physically hurts my brain to try to relate the two in my head.

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[-] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 15 points 3 days ago

Because the double of 0 it's still 0, tax those bastards

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Double 0. In front of a bond-villain-style rocket.

[-] toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 136 points 4 days ago

I agree with Bezos here. We should be taxing him dramatically more than double of what he's currently paying.

[-] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Double nothing is still nothing

Bezos paying any tax at all would be an improvement

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 days ago

I think what he's referring to is that even if you taxed him more right now, that money would just go to funding the trump admin, bombs, and ICE...

Just kidding, I don't think he actually cares about those things.

[-] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You know, you had me there for a second

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

I almost left off the last sentence but then I remembered satire doesn't always transfer well over text

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

He wants more of those things. As does the rest of the Dark Enlightenment assholes.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, but they won't fund it through tax dollars, more like direct "donations" and kickbacks to the corrupt politicians and evil organizations implementing the agenda.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

2 x 0 = 0

So yeah. Of course it won't. All those loopholes and tax shelters they've paid to have written into the tax code need to be closed. They need to be taxed out of existence (as in billionaires shouldn't exist)

[-] lolo@sh.itjust.works 108 points 4 days ago
[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Nothing times two is nothing.

[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How about triple? Still no? 4x, 5x, 100x. Let’s find out when it starts helping people.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 16 points 3 days ago

Nobody wants to double thentaxes on the uber wealthy. We want way way more than double. Personally, I like 100% on "wealth"/"net worth" over 10 million dollars.

[-] isles@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

After you hit $1 billion, just a total reset to 0. They're all pretty confident they can get there again easily, so shouldn't really be a problem. Enjoy your little spotlight in Forbes.

[-] JayK117@aussie.zone 17 points 3 days ago
[-] CaptMurica@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago

They should double his taxes and then double them again and again and again and again. Billionaires should not exist.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So what you're saying is that we should be taking more, a LOT more? We should keep taking until it does help somebody?

I can get down with that.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It would be a massive benefit to all of us even if we burned all of his money in a dumpster rather than redistributing it.

Having billionaires who can buy elections or monopolize markets is inherently destabilizing to society. His dragon horde was captured by exploitation, and it should be returned to the people who actually earned it.

[-] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Yes doubling it won't help it needs to be 33% flat for him and Amazon which is probably more than 5 times

[-] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 31 points 4 days ago
[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Use the monocle to start the fire!

[-] PlanchettePhantom@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I approve of this message. Rich people should not exist and the state should be run by the workers and not have any leader ruling with an iron fist. Letting one person make all the decisions always ends in chaos, tbh.

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago

I like Leeja Miller's line, taxes were the compromise.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago
[-] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Which is why we need to quintuple it. And keep doubling it from there until morale has improved globally.

[-] Smeagol666@mander.xyz 17 points 4 days ago

Or we could tax him at 75% and he'd still be filthy rich. Fuck these rich assholes.

[-] fraksken@infosec.pub 20 points 4 days ago
[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 23 points 4 days ago

Which is why we need a billionaire wealth tax too, and to close tax loopholes that allow the rich to pay close to nothing.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 4 days ago

Why not then, as it won’t harm him either?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago
[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

"This is why taxing me is bad..." - Rich Cunt

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago

You sure? Let's try it!

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Doubling his taxes won't do much.

Taxing him at 50% will.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

He is just saying he pays no taxes guys. Hands out the pitchforks

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 17 points 4 days ago

Well… under the current administration, one could argue that he’s right.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE

[-] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 5 points 4 days ago

No, that's how he is supposed to look.

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[-] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago

How much would that be? Like $15?

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

1.5 bananas worth then.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago
[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Double it AND enforce it too. Problem solved.

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The only way that is true is if he pays none...gotta fix that.

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A Boring Dystopia

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The world we live in isn't just dystopic, it isn't just stupid, trying to describe all the ways it sucks just makes for a really boring story.

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