Amazon's Philosopher King

Jeff Bezos is just another bloviating billionaire talking his book on CNBC. Taxes are still coming out of your check.

This Week In Blunders – May 17-23

“Money is the best deodorant.” – Elizabeth Taylor

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Somewhere in Queens there’s a nurse who needs more disposable income to shop at Whole Foods and keep the Amazon economy humming.

Jeff Bezos has a solution. No more taxes for her, or the rest of the afflicted working class.

“We shouldn't be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington,” he said on CNBC this week. “They should be sending her an apology.”

It’s not enough to sit quietly when you’re the world’s fourth-richest man. You have to be a philosopher king.

“I pay billions of dollars in taxes. If you want me to pay more taxes, then let’s have that debate. But don’t pretend that’s going to solve the problem.” – Bezos on CNBC.

Bezos must have climbed down from his $575 million super yacht, still aglow from his $50 million wedding, onto one of his multimillion-dollar Gulf Stream jets, to one of his cash-incinerating rocket factories, to dispense his wisdom.