數萬美國人上書要求首富貝佐斯留在太空
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新冠疫情和隨之滔天“大水”再度讓美國的貧富差距加大。這對美國的富人來說可謂喜憂交加。比如最近發生了一件尷尬的事，亞馬遜公司（Amazon）創始人傑夫·貝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）近日表示，他將於下個月和弟弟作爲自己家造的藍色起源（Blue Origin）飛船的首批乘客之一進入太空。
藍色起源是貝佐斯創辦的太空旅行公司。貝佐斯在Instagram上發帖稱，太空飛行是他“一生”都想做的事情。
明明是件喜氣洋洋可以大幅炫耀的事兒，然而最近有將近5萬名美國股民上網請願，要求貝佐斯不要再回地球，留在太空。署名的人數還在不斷增加。網民們大聲疾呼：你們可以把一個億萬富翁送到太空，爲啥不把所有億萬富翁都送過去？
以下爲網上署名網站的截圖。
貝佐斯是世界上最富有的人之一。據《福布斯》雜誌數據，他的淨資產爲1862億美元（1315億英鎊）。和他一起太空旅行的有他的弟弟和另外一位付了2800萬美元的匿名乘客。
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美國人民的仇富心理正白熱化發展。6月8日週二，美國新聞網站發佈報告，揭示了最富有的美國人如何大舉避稅。根據上述網站從美國國稅局（IRS）獲得的機密稅務文件，在2014年-2018年期間，最富有的25位美國人共繳納136億美元聯邦所得稅。跟他們在此期間獲取的財富相比，也僅是九牛一毛。
貝佐斯與美國普通家庭財務、納稅狀況對比
圖源：ProPublica
比如在這五年間財富增長243億美元的巴菲特僅繳納了2370萬美元的稅款，實際稅率爲富人最低，僅爲0.1%。身家漲了990億美元的貝佐斯緊隨其後，實際稅率爲0.98%；布隆伯格和馬斯克的實際稅率則分別爲1.3%和3.27%。
關於美國面臨的問題，有時間建議大家不妨讀讀《21世紀資本論》這本書。它是法國經濟學家湯瑪斯·皮克提著書，它討論了自18世紀以來歐美的財富和收入不均的問題。這本書的主要觀點認爲貧富不均不是意外，而是資本主義的一個特點，並且只能通過國家幹預來扭轉。因此這本書認爲除非資本主義進行改革，否則真正的民主秩序將受到威脅。
貝佐斯去留如何，我們將拭目以待。
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