Episode 756 | Amazon Pays No Taxes | Chicken Culture War | Mayo Pete and the Tea Party
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Amazon made $11.2 Billion in profits in 2018 and will be paying $0 in taxes. I PAY MORE IN TAXES THAN AMAZON. You likely do as well. Let's discuss how they are extracting this obscene amount of wealth from our society but not contributing anything to its maintenance or development.
Chick Fil-a is promising -- again -- to stop being bigots. Popeye's got em shook. But if they would just stop being homophobes, I'd much rather eat their chicken.
Dave Rubin -- the resident token Gay of the Republican Party -- has decided that since Chick-Fil-A will no longer be homophobic that he will now boycott the chain. Seriously.
Finally, why is it that we just can't help but laugh at flatulence?
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| 0:10.2 | Progressive Army. |
| 0:11.3 | Today is Tuesday, November 19, 2019. |
| 0:15.0 | Thanks so much for joining us. |
| 0:18.0 | Bernie Sanders tweeted out and it has been confirmed that Amazon.com will be paying $0 in taxes on 11.2 billion |
| 0:29.8 | dollars not in |
| 0:35.0 | for a five or ten year period but just for 2018 alone |
| 0:40.0 | let me say that again |
| 0:42.0 | Amazon. loan. Let me say that again. |
| 0:43.2 | Amazon.com, one of the wealthiest companies in this nation, probably one of the few companies |
| 0:49.9 | that will become a trillion dollar company in our lifetimes. |
| 0:54.4 | Amazon.com will be paying $0.0 in taxes on 11.2 billion dollars in profit for 2018 alone. Now I actually pay taxes and I pay pretty regularly I |
| 1:10.5 | don't even make a lot of money, especially here in Georgia like, I mean you can make |
| 1:15.4 | crap for money and still owe the government taxes, state taxes. And then there's that |
| 1:21.4 | threshold where most people exist. You make a little bit of change. |
| 1:25.0 | You came up, maybe you succeeded a little, came up from the floor to the middle. |
| 1:30.0 | You didn't get it all all the way to the top, but you're making just enough money that you |
| 1:33.8 | owe the government taxes. |
| 1:36.8 | You and I, we pay more in taxes than a company that made 11.2 billion dollars in profit. See that's the type of |
| 1:49.2 | thing that really should put everything into context for you. |
| 1:55.0 | This system, it is an understatement, even if it's redundant, it is an understatement to say that this system is rigged. |
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