Zohran Mamdani, who became the New York City (NYC) Mayor earlier this year, has fired back at Jeff Bezos regarding the latter’s recent comments about taxes in America. The Working Families Party leader took to social media to snap back at Bezos for trying to imply that a rise in billionaires’ taxes wouldn’t improve the situation of the working class.
Zohran Mamdani slams Jeff Bezos for ‘taxes’ comment
On May 20, the NYC Mayor reposted a clip of the Amazon founder’s recent interview on social media, along with a sarcastic one-liner in the caption.
Zohran Mamdani’s comeback came after Jeff Bezos remarked to CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin that doubling his taxes would do no good to average earners like teachers. “People sometimes say that I don’t pay taxes. Not true, I pay billions of dollars in taxes…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,” he told Sorkin. “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you. You cannot connect the two things, not logically.”
In response, Mamdani wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.”
During his CNBC interview, Bezos also criticized Mamdani for going after Citadel CEO Ken Griffin in a video that saw him unveil a new pied-à-terre tax. The 62-year-old business mogul noted that it wasn’t right on Mamdani’s part to “stand in front of Ken Griffin’s house and act like he is some kind of villain. Ken Griffin isn’t a villain, he hasn’t hurt anybody, he’s not hurting New York, in fact, quite the opposite.”
Later, Jeff Bezos also shed light on the rising rent prices in the country, claiming that the government’s constant intervention in markets was the primary reason behind this trend. Meanwhile, he has yet to respond to Zohran Mamdani’s recent remark.
