Gary Stevenson

And Jeff Bezos is doing this.

But it has the obvious weakness of where does the money come from?

And the interviewer picks it up and says, OK, you want to tax ordinary people less.

How about we fund that by taxing you more?

So this is Jeff Bezos's next argument, which is, it's kind of, the shallowness of his first argument, which is like, hey, let's just not tax anyone, is,

exposed pretty quickly.

That was I don't think you'll find any economists that say like this is like really feasible.

Just don't tax anyone.

You'll struggle to find that working anywhere.

So if you want to cut taxes on workers, which is what Jeff Bezos is really pushing, maybe we should tax you more.

You Jeff Bezos.

And then Jeff Bezos again throws the ball away.

It's another distraction, which is that no, actually, the real problem is

a spending problem and uses this term which uses I think uses it seven times in the whole interview, which is skills.

He says it's, it's a skills issue.

And now he's moved the argument on to something which is, at least in theory, more economically feasible.

So his first argument is okay, should we tax you more?

And he's like,

how about we tax working people less um and that's nice it's it's bait for working people because working people want to pay less tax but like it really is not economically complete because we can't just start taxing everybody less unless we want to do austerity um and in countries like the uk where we've seen austerity that's been incredibly painful so then he says okay okay

we can tax working people less without taxing you more by cutting government spending.