Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has introduced the “Stop BEZOS Act” to tax companies he says underpay employees, congratulated New Yorkers “for standing up to the power of Amazon.”
The decision by Amazon this week to abandon its planned headquarters in New York City tapped into one of the major themes of left-wing Democrats: that giant corporations — and in some cases the billionaires who run them — must be held to account for wage inequality, corporate greed and middle-class stagnation.
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