CNET -Bernie Sanders... introduced a bill in the Senate called the "Stop BEZOS Act," which would require big corporations like Amazon and Walmart to pay the government for food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other assistant programs that their workers use, according to The Washington Post.
The bill reportedly uses Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' name to stand for "Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act." It would "establish a 100 percent tax on corporations with 500 or more employees equal to the amount of federal benefits received by their low-wage workers," Sanders said.
Amazon just hit the $1 trillion mark in market cap on Tuesday, the second US company to reach that benchmark after Apple. Earlier in July, Bezos became the richest person in modern history with a net worth of $150 billion.
No comments:
Post a Comment