<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This is interesting and bound to create great interesting questions: How far should a corporation go in tax arrangements? What of companies paying above industry rates? What about struggling business that can't truly pay the living wage without going under? Ship out?<br><br>Regards,<br>Boniface </div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">9/7/2018 10:36 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:machukib@gmail.com">machukib@gmail.com</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Cc: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:wangarikabiru@yahoo.co.uk">WANGARI KABIRU</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[kictanet] Bernie Sanders introduces the BEZOS Act slamming Amazonlow wages</span><br><br></div><div dir="auto">https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/bernie-sanders-introduces-the-bezos-act-slamming-amazon-low-wages.html<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"<span style='color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: "lyon regular"; font-size: 18.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Sen. Bernie Sanders' </span><a style='color: rgb(32, 119, 182); font-family: "lyon regular"; font-size: 18.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);' href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/29/amazon-bernie-sanders-claims-are-inaccurate-and-misleading.html">criticism of Amazon</a><span style='color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: "lyon regular"; font-size: 18.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'> peaked Wednesday as he and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., </span><a style='color: rgb(32, 119, 182); font-family: "lyon regular"; font-size: 18.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);' href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/stop-bezos-act-2018?id=C2E88AC5-C629-4680-8F8D-9EE74F343560&download=1&inline=file">introduced legislation</a><span style='color: rgb(66, 72, 88); font-family: "lyon regular"; font-size: 18.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'> to tax corporations for every dollar that their low-wage workers receive in government health-care benefits or food stamps.</span></div><div style='color: rgb(76, 71, 68); font-family: "proxima nova semi bold"; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);' dir="auto"><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>The bill, pointedly called the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies, or BEZOS, Act, is aimed at shaming companies like <a style="color: rgb(32, 119, 182);" href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AMZN">Amazon</a>and <a style="color: rgb(32, 119, 182);" href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=WMT">Walmart</a>, whose workers rely on public assistance.</p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>For months, Sanders has targeted Amazon, juxtaposing the wealth of CEO Jeff Bezos <a style="color: rgb(32, 119, 182);" href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/get-billionaires-off-welfare-remarks?inline=file">with reports</a> that Amazon warehouse workers are paid less than industry averages and rely on food stamps.</p></div><div style='margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 13px; width: 300px; color: rgb(76, 71, 68); font-family: "proxima nova semi bold"; font-size: 18.4px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 214, 219); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);' dir="auto"><img style="margin: auto; padding: 0px !important; border: currentColor !important; border-image: none !important !important; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; min-height: 100%; max-height: 100%; min-width: 100%; max-width: 100%;" src="https://fm-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2018/05/01/105175385-3ED4-BL-0501BernieSandersV2.600x400.jpg?v=1525199954"></div><div style='color: rgb(76, 71, 68); font-family: "proxima nova semi bold"; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);' dir="auto"><div><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>Bezos is the richest man in the world, <a style="color: rgb(32, 119, 182);" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/heres-what-it-will-take-for-bezos-to-become-the-first-trillionaire.html">with a net worth of more than $168 billion</a>.</p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>"Our legislation gives large, profitable employers a choice: Pay workers a living wage or pay for the public assistance programs their low-wage employees are forced to depend upon," Sanders <a style="color: rgb(32, 119, 182);" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttT5zXq3DgI">said of the proposed law.</a></p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>For example, if an Amazon worker received $2,000 in food stamps, Amazon would be taxed $2,000 to cover that cost.</p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>Amazon has previously called the Vermont independent's claims about working conditions in its fulfillment centers <a style="color: rgb(32, 119, 182);" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/29/amazon-bernie-sanders-claims-are-inaccurate-and-misleading.html">"inaccurate and misleading</a>" and a spokesperson declined to further comment on the bill."</p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'><br></p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'><br></p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'><br></p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>Be blessed.</p><p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(66, 72, 88); line-height: 26px; font-family: "lyon regular";'>Regards/Wangari</p></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></body></html>