About this episode
The episode discusses Jeff Bezos's recent comments on tax cuts and the implications of wealth inequality.
The world's fourth richest wants your taxes cut to 0. Why did he say this last week – and should we believe him? T-SHIRT: get the Tax Wealth Not Work t-shirt https://shop.garyseconomics.org/ Chapters (00:00) Intro (02:43) Why Bezos wants lower tax (06:34) His real argument (09:12) How they distract you (12:51) They think you’re stupid (14:04) Tax wealth not work (16:59) “Everyone hates government” (21:45) Blaming politicians (23:50) The broader context (26:04) How billionaires are making you poorer (28:37) The 5 Whys (32:44) What progress have we made?
People in this episode
Host: Gary Stevenson
Topics covered
- taxation
- wealth inequality
- billionaires
- government
- politics
Keywords
- Jeff Bezos
- tax cuts
- wealth
- government
- billionaires
- politics
- taxation
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