Ashley Woolheater
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Ashley Woolheater
@ashwoolheater
Here to rant about corporate greed and climate inaction. She/her/hers. Previous: @SenWarren, @HFA, @StateDept
Washington, DC Katılım Ekim 2010
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Inbox: Gov. Josh Shapiro is calling for the Pennsylvania General Assembly to place new conditions on data center development, requiring his proposed transparency, energy, wage and environmental standards in exchange for qualifying for an existing multi-million tax break.
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Graham Platner calls out Jeff Bezos: “There’s absolutely no question that if we target the wealth where it has been hoarded for decades and put it into social programs like healthcare, childcare, paying teachers what they are worth, we will absolutely improve the lives of working Americans. I think what he is pitching is propaganda. It’s meant to protect himself and protect his crony friends and we’re gonna come after them for it”
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New: The AI exec. order was postponed because David Sacks called Trump this morning and argued that having the federal government review models before their public release would slow down innovation and harm the U.S. in its AI race with China.
David Sacks was read in on the EO this week and senior White House officials believed he was good with it.
“Then, he called POTUS this morning unbeknownst to anybody, his own staff included, and derailed it,” a senior White House official told me.
w/ @cheyennehaslett @jacob_wendler
politico.com/news/2026/05/2…
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NEW: With few allies left in Washington, Netflix is likely to remain in the antitrust hot seat for foreseeable future over pricing power concerns.
labyrinthinsights.com/netlix-anticom…
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Hello @JeffBezos, since you question the results of our studies on the unfairness of the US tax system, please allow me to remind you of the main conclusions of our work, the most comprehensive research to date on this issue.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
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Fixed it: Ultra-wealthy Amazon executive chair villainizes democratic norm of paying taxes to distract from bigger challenges facing his reputation.
NBC News@NBCNews
Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos accuses U.S. politicians of villainizing the ultra-wealthy and using tax policy as a political wedge issue to distract from bigger challenges facing the country. nbcnews.com/business/corpo…
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@Brent_Norris @drewpusateri Pausing data center construction to assess & try to address what we know to be massive impacts on energy supply & the local environment seems reasonable to me.
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@ashwoolheater @drewpusateri A moratorium on data centers seems pretty indiscriminate. Do they care how it affects solopreneurs?
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Since joining OpenAI the amount of congressional staffers that've (very kindly and politely) reached out abt careers in AI/tech from offices whose Reps/Senators rail against AI/tech/infra is...notable.
Tbc, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that and I'm always happy to chat and help people connect with opportunities/networking etc. I didn't agree with the electeds I worked for on everything either, but the divisions there feel a lot wider than on most issues.
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Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.
Chris | Venture X Media@thecoachchris_
Facts It's great that Jeff Bezos thinks this way, because too many people who don't make money think that giving money to the government will solve a lot of their problems. They think these government programs are the answer, and it's clearly not. You can look at the federal level or at the state level, and you will see that a lot of government programs are simply waste.
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Bezos: "We have way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies. There's way too much influence in politics from business, in some cases, wealthy people who really focus on that, unions. There's a bunch of people interfering in the political process."
Amazon has received $15 billion in government subsidies since the year 2000 and paid 1.4% in federal taxes for 2025.
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This is what Jeff Bezos doesn't want you to know: the super-rich have a secret playbook to get away with paying almost nothing in taxes.
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This morning Jeff Bezos said raising his taxes "won't help" working Americans.
Let's look at the math:
Bezos paid Trump $40 million.
Then Trump cut Amazon’s taxes by $8 billion...
And that same bill kicked millions of Americans off health care.
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Truly remarkable statement from the guy with $276 billion who paid a true tax rate of .98% in 2019.
My ROBINHOOD Act would tax the loans @JeffBezos and his billionaire buddies borrow against their stock to avoid taxes altogether.
It would generate $30 billion a year — more than enough to fund universal childcare for “that teacher in Queens” and parents across the country.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."
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@tomselliott @AOC so painful to see this nonsense platformed.
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Jeff Bezos explains to @AOC how billionaires are created: providing at least a billion dollars in value to society -- the opposite of exploitation.
Bezos: "Let me give you a simple example. Let’s say you start a burger joint, and you have 10 employees, and you make a little bit of money.”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “Until you have — this is — this just one — one outlet. And by the way, these are the most delicious burgers in the world. People love your burgers, Andrew. And so then, you open a second outlet —”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “— and now you’re making a little bit more money, and you have 20 employees. Nd you open a third outlet. By the time you’ve opened a thousand outlets, you are a billionaire.”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “And by the way, this is a real life story, it happens all the time, it’s In-N-Out Burger, it’s Raising Cane’s Chicken. At what point did that money all of a sudden become unethical, or it didn’t? There was one outlet, and then there were two, and then there were three. What you’re doing — the way — the way you make a billion dollars, or a hundred million dollars, or 10 million dollars, or anything, is you create a service that people love. And if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with a billion dollars.”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “And you can, you know, just try it with a chicken franchise.”
SORKIN: “Do you think though —”
Bezos: “But your chicken has to be good.”
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You sound a bit defensive here Jeff.
We do want YOU to pay more. You and everyone else hoarding record amounts of private wealth that you aren't paying taxes on and that could be reinvested in this country and its people. The most problematic "government intervention" is the kind you lobby for, Jeff, in order to maintain a system that benefits the very rich while the rest of us struggle. But sure, if you say so we will believe you over our own daily lives. Stop the gaslighting please, we're not as dumb as you think we are.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."
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@CNBC Truly a remarkable moment of public gaslighting.
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You don't say, Jeff.
Is there a segment of the interview where he details HIS interference in the political process in order to receive more corporate welfare, tax loopholes, and have regulators turn a blind eye to monopoly & horrible labor practices?
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Bezos: "We have way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies. There's way too much influence in politics from business, in some cases, wealthy people who really focus on that, unions. There's a bunch of people interfering in the political process." Amazon has received $15 billion in government subsidies since the year 2000 and paid 1.4% in federal taxes for 2025.
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