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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 161 points 9 months ago (34 children)

In other words, he will steal $600M from the public by this move.

Tax evasion is theft.

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[–] Daqu@lemm.ee 85 points 9 months ago (6 children)

If I had 200 dollars and someone would offer me 60 cents for moving to Miami, I would not move.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If someone offered me $600M to move to Miami, I would offer someone $300M to move to Miami and pocket the rest

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

How long do I have to stay? I can buy someplace, lock the door and just be a shut in for a while.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 76 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would you settle for some aircraft carriers?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As long as Ukraine gets them, I guess. Sheesh 🥲

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 69 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So, apparently he spends his time with a strange rubber woman. At least from the thumbnail pic.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's even worse if you look at the full picture. How the fuck is her plastic surgery that horrible when she's with one of the richest people on the fucking planet?

[–] doricub@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People who get multiple plastic surgeries often request to make their features more and more extreme.

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[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I love that I have a way hotter wife than the richest man on earth, his looks plastic

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought his previous wife was far more attractive than his current partner. Obviously I don't know their personalities and such though.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

Everyone's got different taste.

Billionaires typically have the weirdest, like children

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I mean, he's a robot, so he's prolly rather into that artificial look.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not trying to defend this shit bag, but looks aren’t everything.

If the only quality your wife has is “being hot” then I am afraid you lost.

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[–] TotalSonic@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Get rid of income taxes and do a national Land Value Tax on all business properties instead, like Henry George talked 145 years ago, problem solved.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Okay, but Bezos makes the bulk of his money on intellectual property and service fees, not physical real estate.

What you're proposing is still, fundamentally, a tax cut for Tech guys and a big tax hike on the agricultural / mineral / business real estate sectors. It also sets up this very fluid goalpost of "What is an acre of land worth?"

We play this game in Texas, and there's an enormous incentive for regional economic interests to decide who the Texas Comptroller and Texas Railroad Commissioner is, because these two get to functionally dictate how much tax will be collected on land assets. By contrast, the head of the IRS taxes all dollars equally.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or, just get rid of capital gains taxes and tax it marginally at the regular rate.

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What the fuck is up with her claw thing that's grasping his hand???

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean what the fuck is also up with him making a fist while she grasps her hand? Is that like some sort of manliness role play

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

she saw the photographer and she's trying to hold him back from sucker-punching an Amazon warehouse worker he's just spotted

[–] spencer@programming.dev 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

His girlfriend's a Canadian AI. You wouldn't know her.

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[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

She doesn't look human.

The longer I look at this picture the more she looks like the bug in an Edgar suit.

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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Imagine despising the country that facilitated the acquisition of your embarrassing hoard of wealth to begin with this much.

Does Jeff treat his parents that gave him a quarter million to start with this much disrespect as well? Or was their part in facilitating his success one that he actually acknowledges?

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I genuinely love your use of the word embarrassing here. We need to normalize treating insane personal/family wealth as an embarrassment instead of something to be respected. With very few exceptions you only become a billionaire through inheritance of wealth undoubtedly built on exploitation, or by exploiting others yourself. They should be embarrassed by that.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

don't dick moves like this create incentives for states to decrease tax?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Ostensibly. But the real value of a business owner isn't in the personal taxes they pay, its in the taxes their staff pays. The bulk of Amazon's workforce is going to stick to New York and California and Texas, because that's where the major ports and transit hubs that Amazon needs to operate exist. These states will still rake in tens of billions from the 1.6M Amazon staffers who still need to do their jobs.

You work in the high tax states and retire to the low tax states. Bezos is functionally done being an executive. Now he's just another coked up Miami fuckboi. But current CEO Andy Jassy will be staying in Capital Hill, Seattle for the tail end of his career because that's where the actual work of running the Amazon corporation takes place.

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh good I was worried about his wealth poor fella

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Huh. So the Jeff Bezos Trump attacked regularly for being an ultra-left liberal pinko commie red not only moved to Florida, but moved to Florida so he wouldn't have to pay as much tax.

That doesn't make much sense... unless Trump's assessment of him was wrong. But how likely is that?

[–] Filthmontane@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Why do all these shit bags keep moving to my swamp? Get out of my swamp!

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Tax dodger piece of shit scum.

[–] HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dear Miami, you're the first to go. Disappearing, under melting snow...

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[–] OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

So happy for him. Maybe he can buy some empty bottles for his employees.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Just assumed he didn't pay taxes.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Imagine how many people could be enrolled in healthcare for that money.

What an ass.

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