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Elizabeth Warren spars with Amazon over corporate taxes and ‘snotty tweets’
"I didn’t write the loopholes you exploit."

By Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com Staff
March 26, 2021 | 12:06 PM

Elizabeth Warren has had it with Amazon’s “snotty tweets.”

The Massachusetts senator and big tech critic got into a snippy back and forth with Amazon’s increasingly combative public relations Twitter account Thursday night, after she called out the e-commerce giant for “manipulating the tax code to avoid paying their fair share.” And while it was hardly the first time that Warren has singled out Amazon, her tweet elicited a sharp response from the Amazon News account.

“You make the tax laws, @SenWarren; we just follow them,” the company tweeted. “If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them.” ...

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