Amazon and Walmart are in war over worker pay — and now corporate taxes.
After Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos on Thursday issued a challenge to other retailers, not naming which ones specifically, to match Amazon’s pay and benefits, Walmart snapped right back.
“Today I challenge our top retail competitors (you know who you are!) to match our employee benefits and our $15 minimum wage. Do it! Better yet, go to $16 and throw the gauntlet back at us. It’s a kind of competition that will benefit everyone,” Bezos wrote in his annual letter to shareholders.
“Hey retail competitors out there (you know who you are) how about paying your taxes?” tweeted Walmart’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs Dan Bartlett on Thursday morning, sharing an article about Amazon paying $0 in federal taxes on more than $11 billion in profits last year.
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Amazon will soon have robots too. People that work part time in those huge warehouses deserve it. Every order they fetched is timed and they run from bin to bin all over that place it's like a crazy game show stunt. Injuries and turn over is high.
ReplyDeleteAt least the public knows this contrary to our President who probably did not pay any taxes
ReplyDeleteHe "probably" paid way way more taxes than you grossed 11:31
ReplyDeleteIt is all relevant. AOC hasn't paid her taxes.
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