http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/05/16/fed-up-jeff-bezos-fires-back-at-the-wh-after-biden-admin-comes-after-him-for-calling-out-their-disastrous-economic-policies/
Jeff Bezos isn’t exactly known for a being a flaming right-winger, but recently, he’s shared some rather critical opinions regarding the Biden administration’s economic policies:
Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) ~ You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.
Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) ~ (Replying to @JoeBiden) 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.
OUCH.
Neoliberal (@ne0liberal) ~ (Replying to @JoeBiden) This is so silly. The deficit is decreasing because we’re not doing pandemic aid anymore, and federal receipts are up because of inflation. Congress, or the Biden administration, didn’t do anything to lower the deficit.
Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) ~ (Replying to @ne0liberal) In fact, the administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy and only Manchin saved them from themselves. Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent. Misdirection doesn’t help the country.
DOUBLE OUCH.
Needless to say, Bezos’ speaking out of turn has evidently landed him on the White House’s insubordination radar:
Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) ~ White House responds to Bezos criticism, points out the very richest would pay more under WH agenda.
WH also points out Bezos' criticism of Biden comes after the president met with Amazon labor union leadership.
Statement from @AndrewJBates46:
It also doesn’t require a huge leap to figure out why Jeff Bezos might be really, really irritated right now:
Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) ~ (Replying to @JStein_WaPo) Look, a squirrel! This is the White House’s statement about my recent tweets. They understandably want to muddy the topic. They know inflation hurts the neediest the most. But unions aren’t causing inflation and neither are wealthy people. Remember the Administration tried their best to add another $3.5 TRILLION to federal spending. They failed, but if they had succeeded, inflation would be even higher than it is today, and inflation today is at a 40 year high.
We can’t think of too many times we’ve said this, but good for Jeff Bezos. Inflation is absolutely, as Bezos pointed out above, effectively a regressive tax that hurts the poor the most. And it’s a direct result of the Biden administration’s heinous economic policies. It’s so transparently obvious that the Biden administration, despite vowing during the presidential campaign to put an end to buck passing, refuses to take any accountability for their disastrous decisions and whose solution to the problem is to double, triple, and quadruple down on the disastrous decisions.
Jeff Bezos may be an “out-of-touch” bazillionaire, but he’s far more tuned into the havoc the Biden administration has wrought and continues to wreak on our economy than the genuinely out-of-touch members of the administration who think we’re all too stupid to understand or care why all of this is happening.
mitrebox (@mitrebox) ~ (Replying to @JeffBezos) I mean the guy who founded & ran the worlds largest retailer would probably not be against policies broadly thought to improve middle class spending power.
It simply defies all logic.
Unfortunately the WH declined to provide any evidence of their arguments.
Pfffttt! The Biden White House didn't "decline to provide" ANYTHING - they don't have ANY evidence to back up their arguments, period!
We’re not quite at the point where we can say that the Biden administration has red-pilled Jeff Bezos, but we’re definitely here for whatever this is.
Alec Sears (@alec_sears) ~ When you've lost the owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, you've just lost.
Yeah ... if you're a Democrat.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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