<prompt> Human: Or is this quote just something poor people say about people like Jeff Bezos? If this really is true what are some real examples? How soon can someone stop paying taxes in terms of wealth?  <response>: Sigh...The media sucks at their jobs.The rich pay taxes. In matter of fact, the rich pay the majority of taxes. See here for the boring detail; the people in the top 20 earn 53 of the money and pay 69 of the income tax.People say the rich dont pay taxes because of the long-term capital gains tax, which is lower than the income tax. But thats really a discussion for a different day.Jeff Bezos routinely structures his accounting with Amazon such that its not profitable according to GAAP, but thats more a function of corporate disincentives in the tax code than him, personally, not paying a lot of tax. 