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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: EasyAce on July 27, 2017, 07:13:38 am
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Spoiler alert: They are.
By Aaron Bandler
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18970/fact-check-amazon-paying-taxes-aaron-bandler
President Trump targeted Amazon in yet another unhinged Twitter rant for supposedly not paying
taxes. Yet again, Trump is wrong . . .
. . . (I)t is factually inaccurate for Trump to state that Amazon isn't paying taxes. On their website (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468512), Amazon
actually lists all the states in which their products "may be subject to tax" . . .
. . . It's also worth pointing out that Amazon actually would prefer to have an Internet sales tax as a means
to maintain its dominance . . .
. . . Therefore, Trump is threatening Amazon over nothing, and is only doing so because he thinks that it's a
way to attack The Washington Post, since both are owned by Jeff Bezos. But as [Ben] Shapiro noted, that's the
only connection between the two, making Trump's tweets on the matter all the more idiotic.
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Just more of the same. The truth is irrelevant.
He feels he's been slighted and he has to get retribution anyway he can. It is the core of who he is. He's done it over and over. And obviously it works for him with the kind of people he attracts.
Not my circus, not my clown.
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Not my circus, not my clown.
Of course not! This one's living up to H.L. Mencken's definition of democracy: the fine art of running the circus from
the monkey cage.
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Trump criticizing someone for not paying taxes.
That has to be a parody account.
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Amazon has been collecting sales taxes in Texas since 2012 and since then has remitted more than $270 million to the state.
Amazon, however, doesn't collect taxes from the third-party sales that take place on its platform, estimated at 40 percent of Amazon's total sales.
http://www.govtech.com/budget-finance/Online-Shopping-Takes-Sales-Tax-Revenue-from-Texas-Government.html (http://www.govtech.com/budget-finance/Online-Shopping-Takes-Sales-Tax-Revenue-from-Texas-Government.html)
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@RoosGirl
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Trump criticizing someone for not paying taxes.
That's like Pol Pot criticising Mao for human rights violations.
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Hah, yeah, for some reason I've been thinking about those cartoons more and more lately.
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Hah, yeah, for some reason I've been thinking about those cartoons more and more lately.
Could part of it be that the lady who voiced Witch Hazel in classic Looney Tunes just passed away at 99 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/07/27/rip-june-foray-first-lady-of-animation-acting-voiced-rocky-and-bullwinkle-and-tweety-roles/?utm_term=.6c92c9e49ce8)?
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Could part of it be that the lady who voiced Witch Hazel in classic Looney Tunes just passed away at 99 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/07/27/rip-june-foray-first-lady-of-animation-acting-voiced-rocky-and-bullwinkle-and-tweety-roles/?utm_term=.6c92c9e49ce8)?
Oh, I hadn't seen that. I didn't realize the same person did all those different voices.