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00:02Amazon founder Jeff Bezos defended himself and fellow billionaires in an exclusive CNBC interview
00:09on Wednesday, pushing back on critics while backing a tax cut for lower-income Americans.
00:14Bezos proposed eliminating income taxes for the bottom half of U.S. earners,
00:19arguing a nurse making $75,000 a year should not pay $12,000 in taxes.
00:24He blamed government overspending, not insufficient tax revenue,
00:28for the country's fiscal problems and denied using a buy-borrow-die tax strategy.
00:34Bezos dismissed fears of AI-driven job displacement,
00:37predicting the technology will boost productivity and deflation.
00:42He called President Trump a more disciplined version of himself
00:45and defended Amazon's Melania Trump documentary as nonpartisan.
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