Amazon is the largest company in the world, with annual profits of billions of dollars. But while working families across America paid their fair share during tax season to fund roads and bridges...
Yesterday, it was reported that Jeff Bezos — CEO of Amazon and the richest man in the world — asked Michael Bloomberg if he would consider running for President.
This is what happens when you threaten to root out the corruption that has taken our government hostage. The wealthy and well-connected will always have each other’s backs if it means having a Washington that caters to their every need.
Because we’re running this campaign the right way, Elizabeth won’t call up a few wealthy donors and ask them to cut a few big checks. Our campaign is powered by grassroots donors like you.
In 2018, Amazon paid zero dollars in federal taxes.
You read that right. Zero.
Amazon is the largest company in the world, with annual profits of billions of dollars. But while working families across America paid their fair share during tax season to fund roads and bridges and public schools, Amazon was able to avoid paying a single dollar towards funding the services that all Americans rely on.
How? It's because of a rigged system that favors the wealthy and well-connected.
That’s how Amazon was able to avoid taxes in 2018, but they were also able to pay their workers less than a living wage. It’s how they were able to cut health care benefits for part-time employees.
That ends in a Warren Administration. Elizabeth's Real Corporate Profit Tax will ensure that our biggest and most profitable corporations can never make billions and pay $0 in taxes again. And she has a plan to break up large tech monopolies like Amazon, because no one corporation should have that much influence over our democracy.
So it’s no wonder billionaires like Jeff Bezos are making calls to urge like-minded billionaires to run for president themselves. They want a friend in the Oval Office that will cater to their every need — and they know Elizabeth won’t be that person.
We can win in 2020 and bring big, structural change in 2021. But it isn’t about just one person, and Elizabeth can’t do it alone. It’s going to take all of us to build a movement to end the stranglehold corporations have, and we need your help.
