re: #588 Weaselone

I’m not sure I even get the point here.
1. Bezos also lost something like 10 billion over a few days earlier this year when Trump’s Post Office comments drove down the price of the stock. These are all unrealized stock gains and losses.
2. Although he own’s the company, I’m not sure what Amazon paying taxes or no taxes has to do with Bezos’ taxes and increasing in net worth. If we’re concerned about that we need to restructure the tax code so that capital gains and dividends are taxed at a higher rate and more difficult to offset with losses and other accounting gimmicks.
3. Amazon hemorrhaged money for years, so they have to be sitting on an ungodly amount of loss carry forwards. We can argue about whether those need to be made less generous, but the did lose a metric fuckton of cash in their early years and the profit margins indicate they aren’t exactly making out like bandits now.

And this is why Bernie wouldn’t be a good President because I’m sure Clinton could speak intelligently and with the necessary nuance about all the points you brought up.

For Bernie it’s just going with what works for his revolution to get them excited. Then you have the added benefit of sharing a target (Bezos) with Trump and the lovely irony of not having released his own taxes.