[ketralnis]

It's incrementally better for them to be making $20 instead of $10, sure. But it's worse for the world for that to be footed by the tax payer instead of by the trillion dollar company that they work for. In effect the tax payers are lining Amazon's pockets.

[astrange]

The tax payers are /taking money from/ Amazon, because giving the workers money means that Amazon has to pay them more money to compete.

You can set a minimum wage too if you want, and it usually has positive effects in practice, but these two things are not opposed to each other.

[abigail95]

Of course it should be footed by the taxpayer, ie you and me. If you don't want to pay the tax, then you hire these wokers for more than Amazon pays them.

Why is Amazon the bad guy here? If these workers are productive at $30/hr why hasn't someone hired them already?

I'm the one that should be taxed. I'm not sure I could make them productive in my business for $10/hr, or even $1.