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Catherine Rampell: Tax Bezos. Help workers. But not like this.

By all means, let's raise the living standards of workers at Amazon, Walmart, McDonald's and other employers of low-wage Americans.

And, by all means, let's raise Jeffrey P. Bezos's taxes, too. The founder of Amazon (and owner of The Washington Post) is the wealthiest man in the world. He didn't need the tax cut that Republicans just gave people like him.

But the sloppily designed Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act (aka, ahem, the "Stop BEZOS Act") is a terrible way to do either of these things. It's virtually guaranteed to hurt the very low-income working families its sponsors want to help.