'How About Paying Your Taxes?': Walmart Responds To Amazon's Challenge Over Pay (nbcnews.com)

Amazon and Walmart are in war over worker pay -- and now corporate taxes. After Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos on Thursday issued a challenge to other retailers, not naming which ones specifically, to match Amazon's pay and benefits, Walmart snapped right back. From a report: "Today I challenge our top retail competitors (you know who you are!) to match our employee benefits and our $15 minimum wage. Do it! Better yet, go to $16 and throw the gauntlet back at us. It's a kind of competition that will benefit everyone," Bezos wrote in his annual letter to shareholders. "Hey retail competitors out there (you know who you are) how about paying your taxes?" tweeted Walmart's Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs Dan Bartlett on Thursday morning, sharing an article about Amazon paying $0 in federal taxes on more than $11 billion in profits last year.

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[cayenne8]

No...some jobs are not WORTH a living wage, but they do exist as jobs that need to be done.

It is up to the individual to pick out what jobs they are willing to work and what rate they work for.

No one is holding a gun to anyone's head forcing them to work minimum wage at Wally World.

Raking leaves is not worth a full time living wage with benefits, but it is worth it to a lot of people to pay neighborhood kids to do, or even some young adults that will work a LOT of those jobs, each one paying small, but they add up.

This is the same for any job market. The pay offered is what the job is WORTH. It is up to the person to decide if it is worth their time and effort for he money offered.