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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 120107" data-attributes="member: 35">The last part sounds legit.Trump&#039;s obviously targeting Jeff Bezos for personal reasons, and even said Amazon should pay higher taxes.&nbsp; Ironic, considering Trump&#039;s the one who gave huge tax breaks to wealthy elites.&nbsp; The problem with Trump singling out Bezos is that people are starting to feel sorry for him, when he&#039;s really the epitome of our corrupt crony capitalist system.&nbsp; The guy&#039;s worth over $130 billion dollars, sits on a Pentagon advisory board, has a contract with the CIA, owns the Washington Post, and his employees work for low wages in deplorable conditions.&nbsp; If Bezos isn&#039;t the poster boy of oligarchy, I don&#039;t know who is.&nbsp; Trump has no desire to reform an economic system that has brought us such massive wealth inequality.&nbsp; If anything, he&#039;s working to increase the wealth disparity.&nbsp; His personal reasons for going after Bezos hurt legitimate efforts to tackle income inequality because it makes Bezos look like a victim.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 120107, member: 35"] The last part sounds legit. Trump's obviously targeting Jeff Bezos for personal reasons, and even said Amazon should pay higher taxes. Ironic, considering Trump's the one who gave huge tax breaks to wealthy elites. The problem with Trump singling out Bezos is that people are starting to feel sorry for him, when he's really the epitome of our corrupt crony capitalist system. The guy's worth over $130 billion dollars, sits on a Pentagon advisory board, has a contract with the CIA, owns the Washington Post, and his employees work for low wages in deplorable conditions. If Bezos isn't the poster boy of oligarchy, I don't know who is. Trump has no desire to reform an economic system that has brought us such massive wealth inequality. If anything, he's working to [I]increase[/I] the wealth disparity. His personal reasons for going after Bezos hurt legitimate efforts to tackle income inequality because it makes Bezos look like a victim. [/QUOTE]

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