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“The tax law that congressional Republicans and US President Donald Trump enacted last summer has proved to be a massive boon for Amazon, slashing the corporate behemoth’s 2025 tax bill even as its profits surged and it moved ahead with mass layoffs that have cost 30,000 workers their jobs since October.

“Citing a new securities filing, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Amazon’s “current US taxes, an accounting measure of taxes incurred last year, declined to $1.2 billion from $9 billion” while the company’s “pretax US profit increased by 44.5%, to $89.5 billion. On a cash basis, the company paid $2.8 billion in federal income taxes last year after paying more than $7 billion in each of the prior two years.””

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[–] criscodisco@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There’s a reason these assholes feel like they need bunkers.

[–] Aknifeguy@piefed.ca 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fun fact: All bunkers have air vents somewhere on the surface.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 20 points 1 week ago (11 children)

And all bunkers have an entrance. Entrances that can be sealed with concrete and rebar, to turn bunkers into tombs.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's become tomb creators, and after a year, raiders.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh, I imagine they have supplies to last a year.

I say open them after 100-200y, make it a fun time capsule, then turn them into museums -- "this is one of the places where we buried alive the biggest leeches in society after they constructed the most lavish palatial bunkers to hide in during a time of global turmoil!" -- you can show people just what excess wealth to the point of detachment from society will drive a person to do, and what society will do in turn to them.

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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Their bunkers plans are mostly insane. Zuck has a bunker designed for him and like 100 staff. I don't think he understands how the power dynamics are going to change once civilization ends and his money isn't worth anything.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do, they actually worry about it:

Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

  • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, D. Rushkoff

More people really need to know that this was a legitimate thing. That they balked as well at the guy saying "treat people better and pay them more."

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bezos made that $70m from Melania back real quick

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 15 points 1 week ago

His wealth grows by more than that per day on average

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

That’s a little treat for the Washington post not endorsing anybody for president for the first time ever.

[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Outraged people continue to buy things from Amazon.com!

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not me! I canceled Prime and now shop at WALMART!! sigh.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

As someone who lives in a rural area, this is literally what I'm trying to do. It's fucking joke, but we only have so many stores in town.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Oh noes, so they went from paying almost nothing to just basically paying nothing at all?

Fuck these assholes, bring in the guillotines

[–] hector@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry, did the company actually pay billions in taxes, or was that before other deductions? I seriously doubt they paid that much, and did not offset it against losses in other years, as they can do retroactively for a few years too.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] jessicablaze@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 week ago

Yet another reason to boycott the jungle site.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

That's so fucked up. And some people will still dig in their heels about how billionaires shouldn't have to pay more taxes. Fuck this country.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People should calculate those earnings into the Melania numbers.

That's one HELL of a return on a $75 million dollar spend to bribe Pedonald. If I'm getting all the zeroes right, 7.8 billion / 75 mil is a multiple of 104. Where else are you going to get that kind of return on an investment?

By grifting conservatives. Especially if you are a religion.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Once again, more profit for the mall killer and destroyer of mom-and-pop stores.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

And yet the stock is still falling ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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