Gary Stevenson

Why is he saying that?

Really, the answer is very, very simple.

In order to know that, we just simply need to see the question that he was answering.

So here is the question that Jeff Bezos was asked, and his response was cut taxes on teachers.

OK, so the question was quite delivered in quite a roundabout way by CNBC.

Basically, everybody's talking about taxing the super rich.

You are super rich.

What do you think about it?

And that is the question in response to which Jeff Bezos eventually got round to saying, I think that ordinary teachers should pay less tax.

um now if we first analyze this uh from an economic perspective at a surface level this is like quite a like strange argument right because just that it's most basic you so jeff bez has very intentionally picked a salary level 75 000 a year which is quite close to the american average

you the average man or woman paying less taxes is just quite obviously not a substitute for billionaires paying more taxes right like if we're in a situation where government needs more tax money and Jeff Bezos says how about instead of that we charge ordinary workers less tax money that doesn't solve the problem of tax money right this is a bit like

You and I go to a restaurant and you know that I'm like loaded because you've been reading the Daily Mail and you are struggling for money.

And you say at the end of the meal, hey, listen, you know, how about maybe, you know, you cover this one.

And I say, listen, forget about that.

I've got a better idea.

I'm not going to pay for it.

But how about you don't pay for it?

Like this is it.

It doesn't really...

Especially in the UK context where, you know,