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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani replied to billionaire Jeff Bezos’ claim that even if Bezos doubled the amount of taxes he pays, it’s “not going to help” a teacher in Queens, New York.
“I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ,” Mamdani wrote on Wednesday on X.
During a Wednesday interview on CNBC, Bezos responded to a question about the critiques of many Democratic politicians who say that Bezos and other billionaires don’t pay enough in taxes. Bezos said he pays “billions of dollars in taxes.”…