It was the tech CEO's second lambasting of President
The global leader had claimed the US was on track to mark its largest yearly deficit decline ever, to the tune of
In a rare public political statement,
Bezos tweeted: "In fact, the administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy and only Manchin saved them from themselves."
Bezos described inflation as a "regressive tax" which harms the least affluent the most. "Misdirection doesn't help the country," he added.
The
"Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss," Bezos tweeted. "Taming inflation is critical to discuss. Mushing them together is just misdirection."
Across the pond, inflation in the US has reached near 40-year highs while the
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