Joe Biden Blasts Amazon About Not Paying Taxes

Joe Biden Blasts Amazon About Not Paying Taxes

According to Business Insider, Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden criticized Amazon on Friday.

He said that the huge online retailer "should start paying their taxes." Biden said, "I don't give a damn how big they are..." In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box," Biden said that they Amazon should NOT "Be in a position where they pay no tax and make billions and billions and billions of dollars..." From 2016 to 2019, Amazon paid $0 dollars in federal income taxes.

In 2020 they paid $162 million dollars, which is about 1.2% of its pre-tax income.