Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos used a wide-ranging CNBC interview on Wednesday to argue that taxing the ultra-wealthy will not help ordinary Americans. He wants the government to scrap federal income tax for the bottom half of earners altogether.
'You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you,' Bezos told Andrew Ross Sorkin on Squawk Box from Merritt Island, Florida.
