Ben Shapiro

The answer for most politicians is yell at the rich people and pretend the rich people got rich by causing poverty, which is untrue.

Poverty is the natural state of all mankind.

For all of human history, everyone was poor.

The question is not why there are poor people and rich people.

The question is why even the poor people in the United States are, by any historical marker, very, very rich.

That is the real question.

Okay, so of course, Bezos is getting ripped up.

The idea is that Bezos somehow doesn't pay taxes.

That, of course, is silly.

He pays a lot of money in taxes.

Okay, that's the point.

That's the point, is government intervention is causing the unaffordability problem.

It is not free markets that cause things to be less affordable.

Free markets, they make things.

All things that the free market engages in become cheaper and better over time because of competition.

That is a reality.

And companies that engage in those businesses ends up contributing more to society than charity.

And one of the big lies that's told is that if Jeff Bezos gives a billion dollars to charity, that is somehow better than what Amazon does.

That is not true.

It is not true.