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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Tuesday, June 18, 2019

FOCUS | Amazon to AOC: Excuse You, Our Employees Live Like Kings on $15/Hour







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Jeff Bezos and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Getty Images)
Bess Levin, Vanity Fair
Levin writes: "The tech giant takes issue with the notion that its founder's wealth is predicated on paying 'starvation wages.'" 


EXCERPT: 

The company responded similarly back in April when Elizabeth Warren introduced a proposal called the Real Corporate Profits tax, which would apply a 7% tax to all corporate profits over $100 million. Under her plan, for instance, Amazon would have paid $698 million in taxes last year, rather than the zero-dollar check it actually wrote Uncle Sam. Amazon, it seemed, did not appreciate being singled out, huffily insisting that it “pays all the taxes we are required to pay in the U.S. and every country where we operate, including paying $2.6 billion in corporate tax and reporting $3.4 billion in tax expense over the last three years,” to which Warren effectively responded, “Did I stutter?





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