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by lightgreen 1827 days ago
> How many politicians were sent to jail for covid insider trading?

What is covid insider trading?

> What about the billions Jeff Bezos fleeced in taxes?

I believe Jeff Bezos did no violate the law, but that's really offtopic here.

> It's the rich man's world, where justice is only onto the poor.

Tell that to all the rich guys went to jail.

Or if you have some statistical evidence, I'd love to read it.
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88840-8855 1827 days ago
This dude is referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_t...

>However, on February 13, he and his wife sold between $628,000 and $1.7 million worth of stock through thirty-three transactions and on February 27

> NPR asked Caitlin Carroll, Burr's spokesperson, for a comment on the alleged violations and she responded with "lol"

>On May 13, the FBI seized Burr's phone, to investigate his communications with his stock broker, among other warrants, including one to search his personal iCloud account

>On May 26, the Justice Department announced that it had ended its investigation into Feinstein, Inhofe, and Loeffler.[18] On January 19, 2021, the Justice Department closed its investigation into Burr

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antonzabirko 1827 days ago
Jeff leverages trillions in infrastructure, the maintenance of which costs billions. Taxpayers subsidize that. You aru not being genuine with your words, but this I will clear up.
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lightgreen 1826 days ago
That's what countries and governments are for: people and companies pay taxes so other people and taxes count use the infrastructure.

Amazon pays quite a lot of taxes, directly and indirectly. It creates jobs, improves infrastructure etc.

Anyway, that's offtopic: whether Jess should be in jail because he violated the law and whether someone should pay more taxes are completely different topics.

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antonzabirko 1824 days ago
Like I said, you are not being genuine with your arguments. What you're saying is technically true but not a productive viewpoint. That's why I don't want to address your stuff. Suffice it to say that Bezos doesn't pay his company's offset in taxes.
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