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Bernie Sanders introduces 'Stop BEZOS' bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) have introduced a bill that would tax companies like Amazon and Walmart for the cost of employees' food stamps and other public assistance. Sanders' Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act (abbreviated "Stop BEZOS") . . . would institute a 100 percent tax on government benefits that are granted to workers at large companies.
The bill's text characterizes this as a "corporate welfare tax," and it would apply to corporations with 500 or more employees. If workers are receiving government aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), national school lunch and breakfast programs, Section 8 housing subsidies, or Medicaid, employers will be taxed for the total cost of those benefits. The bill applies to full-time and part-time employees, as well as independent contractors that are de facto company employees.
Sanders announced his plans for the proposal last month. He emphasized today that "this discussion is not just about Amazon and [Amazon CEO] Jeff Bezos." But as the bill's name would suggest, he's been particularly critical of Amazon and Bezos who became the richest person in the world (and modern history) last year. "The taxpayers in this country should not be subsidizing a guy who's worth $150 billion, whose wealth is increasing by $260 million every single day," [ . . . rest omitted . . . ]
Food stamps, School Lunch, Medicaid, great . . . but what about employees who must shop at Walmart?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @01:17AM (6 children)
This is why I don't care about slavery. I used to think it was bad, but now when I learn that slaves had better conditions than I do today, and I have it pretty good compared to most of the rest of the world, I think meh, I have it worse than your ancestors and you're still whining. stfu
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @02:14AM (2 children)
Define better. Do you value freedom? Not being forcibly separated from your family? Not having your daughters raped by Master?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @04:45AM (1 child)
I'm a working slave as were my ancestors back to the stoneage. A slave. Period.
And worse off than my ancestors, they were fed and clothed. I'm a slave that is allowed to starve to death. Who cares if I have freedom. Yeah, I have freedom to starve. Fuck you, master
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 06 2018, @11:50AM
Working slave != slave.
Yet you still manage to find the calories to whine about it on SN.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 06 2018, @03:10AM
Frederick Douglass [gutenberg.org]. Perhaps you ought to learn from people who have been both free and slave rather than whatever benighted source you used above?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 06 2018, @05:59PM
but now when I learn that slaves had better conditions than I do today,
You are a fucking idiot if you believe that fairy tale.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 06 2018, @07:04PM
Most workplaces don't whip people, maybe even to death, if they feel like it. Or if the lady of the house is in a bad mood or feels disrespected.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.