Joe Zepecki: “In 2025, Amazon paid $1.2 billion in federal taxes. The year…”

“I mean, right, a trillion dollars is such a big number, you can't get your head around it. So let's just take one of the guys that Brad just named, Mr. Jeff Bezos of Amazon. In 2025, Amazon paid $1.2 billion in federal taxes. The year before that, in 2024, before the big ugly bill went through, they paid $9 billion federal taxes. That's an 87% giveaway. It's not because their business struggled. Their profits went up 45% between 2024 and 2025.” (05:35–05:54)

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