Bezos thanked you, the Amazon customer (and taxpayer), for funding his rocket ride. And Rep. Earl Blumenauer proposed a space tax for joyrides.
Amazon employees and customers should be thrilled to know that the world’s richest man appreciates you for funding his little 10-minute rocket skydive (“space” travel) today. In a post-flight briefing this cowboy hat-wearing motherfucker actually said the quiet part out loud: “I also want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this.” Now thank him back for your high-paying jobs with many opportunities for career growth. Get back to work. If, for no other reason than someone should have to pay for Jeff Bezos’s rebranding campaign from overlord-to-astronaut amidst a multi-billion-dollar space war with Elon Musk, it is time to consider a space tax. Today, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) presented the idea in a press release for the proposed Securing Protections Against Carbon Emissions (SPACE) Tax Act, remarking that “space exploration isn’t a tax-free holiday* for the wealthy.” (Holiday* lasting 1/144th of one day.
