- Sen. Elizabeth Warren criticized Jeff Bezos for not paying taxes after he landed back on earth.
- Warren has criticized Bezos' tax rate before, including after a bombshell ProPublica report revealed how little the wealthiest pay.
- Warren is also a longtime advocate for a wealth tax on those holding over $50 million.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a jab at Jeff Bezos after the world's richest man returned to Earth from his suborbital space trip with Blue Origin.
Bezos addressed a crowd on Tuesday while donning a cowboy hat, saying he wanted to "thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this."
-Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) $4
"Jeff Bezos forgot to thank all the hardworking Americans who actually paid taxes to keep this country running while he and Amazon paid nothing." Warren tweeted, shortly after Rep. Ocasio-Cortez had $4 Bezos.
It's not the first time Warren has taken aim at Bezos and his taxes. As $4, Warren $4 that Bezos was "laughing at every person in America who actually paid taxes. Jeff Bezos's trip to outer space is being financed by all the rest of the US taxpayers who paid their taxes so that Jeff Bezos didn't have to."
Her remarks came after a bombshell ProPublica report revealed just how little the wealthiest Americans pay in taxes. That report $4 Bezos did not pay income taxes for two years; in fact, in 2011 $4 a $4,000 tax credit that's meant for families earning under $100,000. Insider's Lynnley Browning also $4 that Amazon paid no income taxes in 2017 and 2018.
While the methods that America's wealthiest use to pay relatively little in taxes $4, they've prompted discussions from legislators around the need for tax reform.
Warren is a longtime advocate for a wealth tax. Her proposal, the $4, targets households with a net worth of $50 million or more. Households with $50 million to $1 billion would see a 2% tax; those with over $1 billion would see a 3% tax.
An $4 from Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies Project on Inequality found that, under Warren's tax, Bezos would have paid $5.7 billion in taxes in 2020.
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