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.
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.”
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