Amazon boss Jeff Bezos said the nation’s newly formed Disinformation Governance Board should take a look at the White House after a tweet from President Biden which attempted to link skyrocketing inflation with the country’s corporate tax rate.
“The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead,” Bezos scoffed in tweet late Friday night. “Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection.”
Inflation — which took off the moment President Biden stepped into the White House — surged to 8.3% in April, approaching a 40 year record. Prices for basic commodities like food and gasoline have soared.
“You want to bring down inflation?,” Biden asked in a tweet Friday. “Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.”
The Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board has come in for widespread criticism over its stated goal to fight disinformation on social media.
The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead. Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss. Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection. https://t.co/ye4XiNNc2v
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) May 14, 2022
It’s director Nina Jankowicz has been derided as a partisan hack, who has publicly talked about verified (and overwhelmingly left-leaning) Twitter users being able to “edit” tweets from others on the platform.
Start taxing the wealthy at the same rate for all of their income, rather than just their salaries, and that would bring a lot more money into the government coffers. It is rather annoying when billionaires pay a lower percentage of taxes on the majority of their money than the middle-class American workers pay on all their money.
That’s not the issue for this story. As true as your comment is. Biden claims that is the reason for inflation. Story is about this board that controls disinformation. Well that is disinformation.
just something to distract from the secret 10 billion dollar contract awarded to amazon by biden for nsa cloud processing
Has anyone noticed that corrupt politician that he was, enriching his family wealth so that such mundane thoughts would never touch him – that he was in the van guard or at least every plan that was ruinous to Retired Folks who could no longer make a u-turn, take another job to increase their earnings. He voted with first – Taxing 1/4 of Social Security and then later up to 80% of Social Security. Now he has been like a human wrecking ball and among other disasters we are at a huge and maybe rising inflation rate!! Problem for we elderly? even if they get a brake on inflation, the prices that have gone up will not go down. And our earnings, except for an increase in SS, will not go up pay for gas, groceries, utilities and eventually everything will be affected. And of that increase from SS, we pay taxes on the full 80% and in addition have the misfortune of living in a state that fully taxes all SS and private pensions. If he is with it enough to realize what he has done to the country, he doesn’t really care. He has sold through his family his office, prestige and influence – perhaps for his entire government career – to make sure he and his are among the wealthy! I think Good Old Joe must have always been an act, because I would say he is mean and not at all caring of the American people!