打擊亞馬遜低薪
“Do you know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero.”
「你知道亞馬遜去年支付的聯邦所得稅是多少嗎？零。」
federal(adj.)聯邦的、聯邦政府的income tax所得稅
US Senator Bernie Sanders is hot on the heels of Amazon, after he and fellow lawmaker Ro Khanna announced plans for a new tax law that would punish big companies that do not pay their employees a proper wage.
美國政治家桑德斯正追著亞馬遜不放，他和另一位參議員卡納宣布了新稅法計劃，將懲罰那些不支付員工適當工資的企業。
hot on the heels of sb. 緊追不放;窮追不捨=hard or close on the heels of sb.proper(adj.)適當的
Named the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies, or BEZOS Act, after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the law would have companies reimburse the government for every dollar in public assistance programs that their low-wage employees are forced to depend upon.
全名《停止惡質企業壓榨員工法案》，縮寫正好是亞馬遜CEO貝佐斯的姓氏BEZOS，此法案主要內容為，若企業有員工被迫仰賴公共補助計畫維持生計，該企業會被課徵100％援助的金額，
reimburse(v.)償還、補償=repay=pay backassistance(n.)協助、援助depend on or upon~仰賴;依賴=count on~=rely on~
For example, if an Amazon employee receives US$2,000 in food stamps because his wages are too low, then Amazon will have to pay that money back to the government.
如1名員工因為薪水太低而收到2000美元的食物券，企業就會被課徵2000美元的稅。
food stamps食物券
The 76-year-old senator from Vermont began his crusade against the online retailer after a report by New Food Economy revealed that thousands of Amazon employees do not earn a living wage.
在「新食品經濟公司」的一份報告顯示，數千名亞馬遜員工沒有獲得生活工資後，這位來自佛蒙特州的76歲參議員開始對亞馬遜進行討伐。
crusade(n.)十字軍東征;(為理想或信念而奮鬥的)運動living wage生活工資;維生工資
According to the data, in 2017, there were 1,800 employees in Arizona that needed food stamps to make it through the month — nearly a third of the total number of Amazon employees in that state.
數據指出，2017年，亞利桑那州有1,800名員工需要食物券才能撐過月底，佔該州亞馬遜員工總數近三分之一。
make it through~撐過;捱過
“It is long past time you start to pay your workers a living wage,” Sanders wrote in an open letter to Bezos, “It is beyond absurd that you would make more money in ten seconds than the median employee of Amazon makes in an entire year.”
桑德斯在寫給貝索斯的公開信中提到：「你早就該支付員工生活工資，你只需花不到十秒鐘，就能賺到亞馬遜員工的年薪中位數（28446 美元），這實在太荒謬了」。
It is long past time (that)… 早就該做…beyond(adv.) 太…而難以置信absurd(adj.)荒謬的、荒唐的、愚蠢的、可笑的median(n.)(adj.)中間的、居中的、中位數(的)