Bezos supports a rise in corporate tax rate to help pay for infrastructure investments

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[sop]

1. That's good, Jeff.

I suspect Amazon, along with most of corporate America, will benefit greatly from Biden's infrastructure investments.

[Cha]

2. We all should if we

love our Country.

[Cha]

3. Rt TY!

[kysrsoze]

4. So does this mean Amazon will actually start paying corporate income tax?

They've been raking in the cash and paying little to nothing in Federal taxes for years. $162M on $11.9B in 2019, and nothing the prior two years. Bezos is such a skeezy, cycnical asshole.

[link:https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/amazon-had-to-pay-federal-income-taxes-for-the-first-time-since-2016.html|

[inwiththenew]

5. It's good PR

But he knows his army of accountants and tax lawyers will find every loophole and they'll never pay anywhere near whatever the published rate is.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Translation: Amazon supports forcing companies that aren't able to avoid taxes to pay more taxes.

Cause that would give Amazon an even bigger competitive advantage.

[Vinca]

7. I should hope so since most of us pay more than he does already.

[hatrack]

8. And he won't be CEO by September this year . . .

So we'll see how much his statement matters, whether before or after he resigns.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-stepping-down-nearing-end-founder-ceo-era-2021-2