Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "How Billionaires Tax Us Every Day" video.
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By them and their businesses not paying their share.
Bezos is a billionaire douchebag who only claims $80k in income, while making billions a year. These billionaires live on loans or lines of credit, which don't count as taxable income, taken out against their stock values, to avoid paying for the infrastructure that helped make them rich, to avoid paying for the military that protects shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad, and to avoid helping pay for healthcare and social security for the elderly. Musk is a billionaire douchebag who has a 50k salary, that he hasn't even taken. Zuckerberg is a billionaire douchebag who gets paid $1. The few times they do sell off some stock is generally tied to a stock option purchase, where they can sell off current stock at full price, pay the taxes on that, and then buy more stocks at a fraction of the value, that are then worth full value, making money out of the whole deal. Then, they can use that year of paying taxes to get tax credits against years they don't. They're leeches.
If Amazon transports a million items over US roads and highways to a million customers, Amazon has benefited from those roads and highways a million times more than each of those customers. If Apple ships a million phones from its sweat shops in China to a million US customers, they have benefited a million times more from the military than each of those customers. Etc.
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