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'Amazon's days of impunity are over': 400 international lawmakers including Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib slam Jeff Bezos on wages, climate action, and taxes

Finally, the lawmakers accused Amazon of paying low tax rates. In 2019 Amazon after two years of paying none at all, due to various deductions and tax credits.

"Amazon pays all the taxes required in every country where we operate," an Amazon spokesman told The Guardian in April. "Corporate tax is based on profits, not revenues, and our profits have remained low given our heavy investments and the fact that retail is a highly competitive, low-margin business," they added.We, elected representatives, legislators, and public officials from around the world, hereby put you on notice that Amazon's days of impunity are over.

The world knows that Amazon can afford to pay its workers, its environmental cost and its taxes. And yet – time and again – you have dodged and dismissed your debts to workers, societies, and the planet. Your great wealth is based on the skills of your workers and the care they receive from their friends, family and communities.

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Idiots. Amazon’s minimum wage is $15. Federal minimum wage is $7.25. Democrats want to know why they lost seats in congress when Biden demolished trump in the popular vote? It’s because we don’t want your socialist policies. You keep going left and you’ll lose more.

Nothing better than the owner of the leftist washingtonpost getting eatin by the left...pure comedy...

Amazon has been selling a lot of knockoff garbage from China lately too. They need to clean up their business model

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