Sen. Elizabeth Warren Rips Jeff Bezos For Space Trip While Stiffing IRS

Sen. Elizabeth Warren  (D-Mass.) flamed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for his high-flying trip to space  last week after skipping out on his taxes and letting struggling Americans pick up the tab for funding the nation.

ProPublica reported last month that Bezos — who is worth some $205 billion — didn’t pay a penny in federal income tax in 2007, 2011 or 2018. He paid a true tax rate of less than 1% between 2014 and 2018, even though his wealth soared by $99 billion.

Now, Bezos will rake in even more dough by selling tickets off-planet via his Blue Origin space company. A public auction held for one of the other three seats on the first crewed flight of the New Sheperd rocket that carried Bezos into space last Tuesday sold for $28 million . He boasted last week that Blue Origin had already sold close to $100 million in tickets  for future flights.

Bezos was recently scorched on social media for thanking Amazon workers and customers  for funding his flight. That was a particular clunker given that Amazon crushed workers’ efforts earlier this year to unionize and receive better pay and benefits for their labor.

Critics were also happy to agree with Warren: