In September of 2018, the remarkably popular, ideologically progressive United States Senator Bernie Sanders

partnered with a House representative from California named Roe Kana to introduce the

Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act, which hilariously and very intentionally

acronyms down into the Stop Bezos Act.

And that bit of legal naming shade was thrown because this act is intended to target corporations

like Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, alongside others like Walmart and American Airlines, who are becoming notorious for paying their employees non-living wages.

In other words, these are companies that don't pay their employees enough for those workers to be able to afford food and shelter and health care and other necessities,

which then leaves them at least partially dependent on government welfare programs to survive.

And again, that's despite their being employed full-time by these massive and massively profitable corporations.

The Stop Bezos Act would enact a new tax on large corporations, which is defined as those which employ more than 500

people. And that includes part-time and freelance gig workers as well. So ride-sharing companies

and Airbnb and companies like that, which have massive workforces made up of people who are not

officially working for the company, according to

current legal definitions of employment. This act would make it so that every dollar, the government

pays out for those employees in welfare programs, and that includes programs like the Supplemental

Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, which is the modern version of food stamps,

school lunch programs, Medicaid, and Section 8 housing programs.

For each dollar, the government spends on these programs for the employees of these

companies.

Those corporations would be taxed for that exact same amount, dollar for dollar.

The ostensible goal here would be to stop, or at least limit, what some have called, corporate

welfare.

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