There are no decent billionaires. Never have been, never will be.
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ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98%
www.propublica.org/article/the-...
So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...