Presidential candidate Andrew Yang hits Seattle to propose a national Amazon tax

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang hits Seattle to propose a national Amazon tax

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Credit: Photo by Andrew Frawley Andrew Yang meets with union leaders with the United Auto Workers in Iowa Entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Yang says America needs a guaranteed Universal Basic Income of $1,000 dollars a month, and he wants big tech companies like Amazon to pay for it.

He’ll make his case on Friday night in Seattle at Gas Works Park.Yang says Donald Trump became president by exploiting job losses caused by automation, particularly in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.“By 2015, automation had already destroyed 4 million manufacturing jobs," says Yang’s campaign website. "The smartest people in the […]

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