Originally Posted By: Illahee
ProPublica says it has seen the tax returns of some of the world's richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett.

The website alleges Amazon's Mr Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011, while Tesla's Mr Musk paid nothing in 2018.


Just cherry picking a year here and there where their businesses lost money so didn't have an income. In 2007 Bezos was able to offset every penny he earned with losses from side investments, in 2011 Bezos filed a tax return reporting he lost money. Since we tax income, losing money in a year means that you don't pay income taxes because you have no income to tax. That website actually says over the 5 year period they study Buffet paid $23.7M, Bezos paid $973M and Musk paid $455M. Paying $20 million or hundreds of millions is not little to no taxes. You are misrepresenting the facts.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-s...void-income-tax

Also what does any of this have to do with college loan forgiveness?

I rate that one 1/5 pillows boomer because even though you misrepresented facts I give you a pillow for at least providing a source but a better source would be the actual ProRepublica article itself your article was talking about that I linked.