Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'

• GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This just isn’t true. Billionaires do very little that negatively affects society. Mostly they just pay all the tax and provide all the jobs.

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  • derAbsender@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amazon in the past was often able to overcome threats from state governments by cutting ties with local partners or leaving the state in question. Amazon severed its relationships with affiliates in Colorado due to efforts by the state government to collect sales tax on internet purchases. Amazon has threatened similar action against affiliates in Illinois over the same issue.[47] In February 2011, Amazon announced that it would be closing its Dallas, Texas, distribution center over the sales-tax dispute[145]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax_avoidance

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    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s got nothing to do with billionaires though. Are you suggesting that businesses that don’t have a billionaire founder never have and can’t do things like that?

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      • derAbsender@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I do not try to pay as little Tax as i can, because i am not a selfish piece Shit.

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  • Aria@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They don’t provide jobs, they tax jobs. The billionaire’s customers provide the jobs. The workers create the product, and the billionaire collects the money from the customer and pays a fraction of it to the worker. Without the billionaire, the worker could be earning the full value they provide to the customer.

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