Jeff Bezos Says the Bottom 50% of Earners Should Not Be Taxed

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:02]How about we start by having the nurse in Queens not pay taxes?

[00:00:08]Why is somebody at all Why is Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?

[00:00:18]That's $1,000 a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.

[00:00:23]And so And And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes.

[00:00:34]It's only 3%. We can find 3%. So, we don't have It's It's It's a small amount of money for the government, you know, that. And really, it's The more I thought about it, to me, it's kind of absurd that we're doing this. You know, we shouldn't be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.