"alexandria ocasio-cortez false premise 1: (non-tax contributions) 1- amazon purchased $11b in federal bonds last year. literally, amazon put more than its total net income into "the pot". 2- amazon collects sales tax on all us purchases - thus *every* sale in the us contributes to the tax coffers. 3- amazon employs well over half a million persons - and is approaching the same number as the total population of seattle. while some of those are in other countries, the majority are in the united states - and fitw applies to all of them. 4- amazon sells to - or facilitates sales to - international customers, thus foreign wealth is transferred into the us, increasing the total wealth of the us - and thus the pot gets bigger."
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