Amazon, And 56 0ther Corporations Took Your Tax Dollars

[Harpy Eagle]

No, they're the ones who haven't seen any real increases in income because of the policies enacted by the Reagan government and the destruction of the union movement. Workers whose jobs were displaced by off-shoring lost good paying jobs. Any remaining jobs in their sector suddenly had wage drops because of the competition for the few remaining jobs. I watched it happen with friends here after NAFTA was approved.

Jobs which paid $15 per hour disappeared after NAFTA became law in the early 90's. The few remaining jobs paid minimum wage, which at that time was $7 and change. It took 20 years for these workers finally got back to the $15 per hour they were making in 1990, and the minimum wage was then $10 per hour. Of course by then $15 didn't buy nearly as much as it did back in the early 90's.

Little known fact about offshoring....of all the jobs lost only 20% of them went overseas. The rest were lost to automation and increased efficiency. It is not coincidence that as manufacturing employment numbers were dropping manufacturing output was still growing in the US.

My father was a production worker. He bought a modest house, and raised 6 kids on his wages. Yes they raised chickens in our yard, and fed us all from a big kitchen garden, and my Mom sewed all our clothes, but they were able to do it on my Dad's wages. Today, my production worker friends have both parents working full time, in order to provide for their families.

Today they are providing much more, cell phones, cable TV, internet, and the like. If people lived like your family did they could make it easily on one income. My family was a one income family for the better part of 20 years till the kids were old enough not to need their parent 24/7. We were not rich but we made do.

Reagan promised workers a big raise when the unions were gone. That was a lie. Trump promised workers a $4000 raise from the tax cuts, and that was a lie. When Reagan was elected, production workers owned 5% of the wealth of the country. Today, production workers are dependent on "earned income credits", food stamps and other government handouts to make ends meet. And now the middle class is losing their share of the wealth, all of which is trickling up.

The only people benefitting from the US economy, are the wealthy. Everyone else is losing ground.

Thus the moral of the story is not to rely on the government to make things better for you.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

If Jeff said" FUCK YOU" and moved to China(as he should) your unemployment would jump grande and UPS/Fedex/USPS would damn near bankrupt. He doesn't have to pay SHIT.
The people that only work.... because he has lotsa work, take care of that ( so IsNtReal can have more aid)

Amazon can't just move to China. The government would not allow them to operate there. The workers aren't educated enough, and there are no protections on the IT or their rights. Amazon is ONLY possible in a country like the USA.

The people who WORK haven't had a raise in 40 years, paying corporations for the privilege of working for them. They use massive amounts of infrastructure and government resources protecting their property and their intellectual property rights. There are huge costs involved in providing these platforms for corporations to have the workers and the protections to thrive and flourish. And you think that multi-billionaire corporations shouldn't have to pay anything for the resources they use.

You ignorance is just simply astounding.

Lol
You have no understanding of economics obviously

 

[Rustic]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

Cool.

LOL, Amazon has cut the throats of a ton of Ma & Pa, businesses, and other corner stores, including corporate ones.

This has directly cut out a ton of jobs, consolidated into Amazons hands who in return hire far less than all these businesses would.

Why is this a good thing, exactly?

Oh, Bezos doesn't have enough money, boo hoo hoo.

How about Bezos pays for that wall?

Home Depot closed a lot of mom and pop hardware stores too.

You know how Hone Depot started?

Some guys who just got fired from work got together and opened a hardware store.

Again, Capitalism. They are all billionaires now.

And per one of the founders, government regulations prevent their success story from being repeated.

Since the rise of mega-corporations, outsourcing, and increased hiring of illegals. (All Capitalism) it's no surprise that despite a spike in productivity, real wages have flatlined, or even declined.

These corporations become mega through merger acquisitions. It goes against the very principles of capitalism as outlined by Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, in The Wealth of Nations. The conservatives who proclaim to be the guardians of capitalism, have abandoned those principles for crony capitalism you see today.

 

[Rustic]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

Republicans feel this is a great idea. They are so happy. They feel corporations should be running the country. In fact they even insist that the country should be run like a corporation. Only without healthcare.

 

[Rustic]

If Jeff said" FUCK YOU" and moved to China(as he should) your unemployment would jump grande and UPS/Fedex/USPS would damn near bankrupt. He doesn't have to pay SHIT.
The people that only work.... because he has lotsa work, take care of that ( so IsNtReal can have more aid)

Amazon can't just move to China. The government would not allow them to operate there. The workers aren't educated enough, and there are no protections on the IT or their rights. Amazon is ONLY possible in a country like the USA.

The people who WORK haven't had a raise in 40 years, paying corporations for the privilege of working for them. They use massive amounts of infrastructure and government resources protecting their property and their intellectual property rights. There are huge costs involved in providing these platforms for corporations to have the workers and the protections to thrive and flourish. And you think that multi-billionaire corporations shouldn't have to pay anything for the resources they use.

You ignorance is just simply astounding.

Lol
You have no understanding of economics obviously

 

[BrokeLoser]

If Jeff said" FUCK YOU" and moved to China(as he should) your unemployment would jump grande and UPS/Fedex/USPS would damn near bankrupt. He doesn't have to pay SHIT.
The people that only work.... because he has lotsa work, take care of that ( so IsNtReal can have more aid)

Amazon can't just move to China. The government would not allow them to operate there. The workers aren't educated enough, and there are no protections on the IT or their rights. Amazon is ONLY possible in a country like the USA.

The people who WORK haven't had a raise in 40 years, paying corporations for the privilege of working for them. They use massive amounts of infrastructure and government resources protecting their property and their intellectual property rights. There are huge costs involved in providing these platforms for corporations to have the workers and the protections to thrive and flourish. And you think that multi-billionaire corporations shouldn't have to pay anything for the resources they use.

You ignorance is just simply astounding.

if one has not had a raise in 40 years they are the ignorant ones.

No, they're the ones who haven't seen any real increases in income because of the policies enacted by the Reagan government and the destruction of the union movement. Workers whose jobs were displaced by off-shoring lost good paying jobs. Any remaining jobs in their sector suddenly had wage drops because of the competition for the few remaining jobs. I watched it happen with friends here after NAFTA was approved.

Jobs which paid $15 per hour disappeared after NAFTA became law in the early 90's. The few remaining jobs paid minimum wage, which at that time was $7 and change. It took 20 years for these workers finally got back to the $15 per hour they were making in 1990, and the minimum wage was then $10 per hour. Of course by then $15 didn't buy nearly as much as it did back in the early 90's.

My father was a production worker. He bought a modest house, and raised 6 kids on his wages. Yes they raised chickens in our yard, and fed us all from a big kitchen garden, and my Mom sewed all our clothes, but they were able to do it on my Dad's wages. Today, my production worker friends have both parents working full time, in order to provide for their families.

Reagan promised workers a big raise when the unions were gone. That was a lie. Trump promised workers a $4000 raise from the tax cuts, and that was a lie. When Reagan was elected, production workers owned 5% of the wealth of the country. Today, production workers are dependent on "earned income credits", food stamps and other government handouts to make ends meet. And now the middle class is losing their share of the wealth, all of which is trickling up.

The only people benefitting from the US economy, are the wealthy. Everyone else is losing ground.

CrazyStonedCatLady....Do us a favor and link us to all your posts expressing your displeasure with filthy wetbacks ruining all construction trades and brainless job markets in Mexifornia...you know, so we can take you serious and all.

 

[Thinker101]

I have a problem with a federal income tax code existing at all.

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I don't mind the taxes in general. I do mind how they are used for superfluous bullshit.

Well then you're part of the problem.

We fought a war over this shit more than 200 years ago, now we get "I don't mind the taxes in general."

Fuck my life.

You are fucking stupid, we did not fight a war over taxes, we fought a war over having no say on what those taxes were.

you ignorance is astounding.

And for some reason you feel now is different than 200 years ago? Dumbass.

well since we have representation and vote on them every 2 years, yes things are different than they were when we were ruled by England.

fuck, you people are just beyond stupid.

We have representatives, which doesn't really translate to having representation....dumbass.

 

[Rustic]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

One, tax cuts have never caused deficits. Every major tax cut has been followed by an increase in federal revenue.

Two, Amazon’s low tax bill was partly due to carried-forward losses from years when the company was not profitable and tax credits for massive investments in R&D and stock-based employee compensation.

Three, do you ever stop to consider the hundreds of millions of dollars that Amazon pays in local property taxes, unemployment compensation insurance, state income taxes, city taxes, and its share of its employees' payroll taxes? Or do you just not care?

That didn't happen with this tax cut, revenue actually fell. Did you know that revenues have actually risen with every increase in taxes?

That's not true. Supply siders have long said this but that doesn't make it true. Revenues decreased significantly when Reagan cut taxes. That's why he raised taxes two years later. Bush's tax cuts didn't increase revenue either.

The Legacy of the 2001 and 2003 “Bush” Tax Cuts

Lol
Federal taxes never leave DC you fucking retard

 

[Blues Man]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

Cool.

LOL, Amazon has cut the throats of a ton of Ma & Pa, businesses, and other corner stores, including corporate ones.

This has directly cut out a ton of jobs, consolidated into Amazons hands who in return hire far less than all these businesses would.

Why is this a good thing, exactly?

Oh, Bezos doesn't have enough money, boo hoo hoo.

How about Bezos pays for that wall?

No Mom and Pop store ever delivered my stuff to my door in 2 days or less.

No Mom and Pop store has ever carried absolutely everything I need or want under one roof.

Why do you want to live in the past where you had to waste time schlepping to 5 or 6 different Mom and Pop stores to get what you want?

 

[Rustic]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

One, tax cuts have never caused deficits. Every major tax cut has been followed by an increase in federal revenue.

Two, Amazon’s low tax bill was partly due to carried-forward losses from years when the company was not profitable and tax credits for massive investments in R&D and stock-based employee compensation.

Three, do you ever stop to consider the hundreds of millions of dollars that Amazon pays in local property taxes, unemployment compensation insurance, state income taxes, city taxes, and its share of its employees' payroll taxes? Or do you just not care?

That didn't happen with this tax cut, revenue actually fell. Did you know that revenues have actually risen with every increase in taxes?

Lol
All federal tax’s stay in DC...

WTF are ewe even rambling about?

Lol
Increasing taxes on anybody makes the federal government all powerful...

 

[Rustic]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

Cool.

LOL, Amazon has cut the throats of a ton of Ma & Pa, businesses, and other corner stores, including corporate ones.

This has directly cut out a ton of jobs, consolidated into Amazons hands who in return hire far less than all these businesses would.

Why is this a good thing, exactly?

Oh, Bezos doesn't have enough money, boo hoo hoo.

How about Bezos pays for that wall?

No Mom and Pop store ever delivered my stuff to my door in 2 days or less.

No Mom and Pop store has ever carried absolutely everything I need or want under one roof.

Why do you want to live in the past where you had to waste time schlepping to 5 or 6 different Mom and Pop stores to get what you want?

Yep,
A store like that deserves all the tax breaks they can take advantage of...

 

[Rustic]

I don't mind taxes in general either. It's my patriotic duty.

Lol
You mean you like taxation without representation

 

[Rustic]

If Jeff said" FUCK YOU" and moved to China(as he should) your unemployment would jump grande and UPS/Fedex/USPS would damn near bankrupt. He doesn't have to pay SHIT.
The people that only work.... because he has lotsa work, take care of that ( so IsNtReal can have more aid)

Amazon can't just move to China. The government would not allow them to operate there. The workers aren't educated enough, and there are no protections on the IT or their rights. Amazon is ONLY possible in a country like the USA.

The people who WORK haven't had a raise in 40 years, paying corporations for the privilege of working for them. They use massive amounts of infrastructure and government resources protecting their property and their intellectual property rights. There are huge costs involved in providing these platforms for corporations to have the workers and the protections to thrive and flourish. And you think that multi-billionaire corporations shouldn't have to pay anything for the resources they use.

You ignorance is just simply astounding.

if one has not had a raise in 40 years they are the ignorant ones.

No, they're the ones who haven't seen any real increases in income because of the policies enacted by the Reagan government and the destruction of the union movement. Workers whose jobs were displaced by off-shoring lost good paying jobs. Any remaining jobs in their sector suddenly had wage drops because of the competition for the few remaining jobs. I watched it happen with friends here after NAFTA was approved.

Jobs which paid $15 per hour disappeared after NAFTA became law in the early 90's. The few remaining jobs paid minimum wage, which at that time was $7 and change. It took 20 years for these workers finally got back to the $15 per hour they were making in 1990, and the minimum wage was then $10 per hour. Of course by then $15 didn't buy nearly as much as it did back in the early 90's.

My father was a production worker. He bought a modest house, and raised 6 kids on his wages. Yes they raised chickens in our yard, and fed us all from a big kitchen garden, and my Mom sewed all our clothes, but they were able to do it on my Dad's wages. Today, my production worker friends have both parents working full time, in order to provide for their families.

Reagan promised workers a big raise when the unions were gone. That was a lie. Trump promised workers a $4000 raise from the tax cuts, and that was a lie. When Reagan was elected, production workers owned 5% of the wealth of the country. Today, production workers are dependent on "earned income credits", food stamps and other government handouts to make ends meet. And now the middle class is losing their share of the wealth, all of which is trickling up.

The only people benefitting from the US economy, are the wealthy. Everyone else is losing ground.

Lol
Career politicians are at fault, and always have been... you fucking retard

 

[JWBooth]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that.

Great start. Lets multiply that by thousands in the future.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

Cool.

LOL, Amazon has cut the throats of a ton of Ma & Pa, businesses, and other corner stores, including corporate ones.

This has directly cut out a ton of jobs, consolidated into Amazons hands who in return hire far less than all these businesses would.

Why is this a good thing, exactly?

Oh, Bezos doesn't have enough money, boo hoo hoo.

How about Bezos pays for that wall?

No Mom and Pop store ever delivered my stuff to my door in 2 days or less.

No Mom and Pop store has ever carried absolutely everything I need or want under one roof.

Why do you want to live in the past where you had to waste time schlepping to 5 or 6 different Mom and Pop stores to get what you want?

So, we didn't lose enough jobs to foreigner immigrants, and outsourced jobs?

Now we need to lose even more jobs with Amazon consolidating jobs into the hands of fewer people?

How is this supposed to work out for the better societal gain, in the long run?

 

[Weatherman2020]

If Jeff said" FUCK YOU" and moved to China(as he should) your unemployment would jump grande and UPS/Fedex/USPS would damn near bankrupt. He doesn't have to pay SHIT.
The people that only work.... because he has lotsa work, take care of that ( so IsNtReal can have more aid)

Amazon can't just move to China. The government would not allow them to operate there. The workers aren't educated enough, and there are no protections on the IT or their rights. Amazon is ONLY possible in a country like the USA.

The people who WORK haven't had a raise in 40 years, paying corporations for the privilege of working for them. They use massive amounts of infrastructure and government resources protecting their property and their intellectual property rights. There are huge costs involved in providing these platforms for corporations to have the workers and the protections to thrive and flourish. And you think that multi-billionaire corporations shouldn't have to pay anything for the resources they use.

You ignorance is just simply astounding.

Stop reading Media Matters and join the real world.

China makes Airbus jets. They build 30 story hotels in 15 days.

China is poised to be the economic superpower of the world if their leadership stays out of the way with their commie BS.

 

[Blues Man]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

Cool.

LOL, Amazon has cut the throats of a ton of Ma & Pa, businesses, and other corner stores, including corporate ones.

This has directly cut out a ton of jobs, consolidated into Amazons hands who in return hire far less than all these businesses would.

Why is this a good thing, exactly?

Oh, Bezos doesn't have enough money, boo hoo hoo.

How about Bezos pays for that wall?

No Mom and Pop store ever delivered my stuff to my door in 2 days or less.

No Mom and Pop store has ever carried absolutely everything I need or want under one roof.

Why do you want to live in the past where you had to waste time schlepping to 5 or 6 different Mom and Pop stores to get what you want?

So, we didn't lose enough jobs to foreigner immigrants, and outsourced jobs?

Now we need to lose even more jobs with Amazon consolidating jobs into the hands of fewer people?

How is this supposed to work out for the better societal gain, in the long run?

Amazon employs 650, 000 Americans

How many employees did your favorite Mom and Pop store ever have?

 

[Likkmee]

All tax payers/consumers

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018, twice the number that typically paid nothing in the years before the 2017 tax breaks took effect. In fact, it's worse than that. Fifty-seven of these corporations demanded rebates from the government which means taxpayers like you and me paid them to exist. These are corporations on the dole. They claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it's welfare for them.

Another ill effect is that government debt balloons. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the deficit rose $113 billion or 17 percent in the first year of the tax cuts, the largest one-year increase since 2009, which was during the worst of the Great Recession. That black hole is projected to occur every year the tax cuts remain in effect.

Republicans take those deficit figures -- deficits they created by cutting taxes -- and use them to demand offsetting spending cuts that is cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, cuts to food stamps and school lunch programs, cuts to programs that are precious to workers and the poor.

The deficits grow like this: Amazon, the online marketplace, made nearly $11 billion last year and instead of paying the current, low 21-percent corporate tax rate on that income, it demanded that taxpayers give it $129 million. Which they did. It wasn't a rebate since Amazon paid no taxes. It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers. This is perverse wealth transfer, from the poor and middle class to the rich and corporations.

Amazon -- and 56 Other Corporations -- Took Your Tax Dollars

Full trickle.

Cool.

LOL, Amazon has cut the throats of a ton of Ma & Pa, businesses, and other corner stores, including corporate ones.

This has directly cut out a ton of jobs, consolidated into Amazons hands who in return hire far less than all these businesses would.

Why is this a good thing, exactly?

Oh, Bezos doesn't have enough money, boo hoo hoo.

How about Bezos pays for that wall?

No Mom and Pop store ever delivered my stuff to my door in 2 days or less.

No Mom and Pop store has ever carried absolutely everything I need or want under one roof.

Why do you want to live in the past where you had to waste time schlepping to 5 or 6 different Mom and Pop stores to get what you want?

So, we didn't lose enough jobs to foreigner immigrants, and outsourced jobs?

Now we need to lose even more jobs with Amazon consolidating jobs into the hands of fewer people?

How is this supposed to work out for the better societal gain, in the long run?

Amazon employs 650, 000 Americans

How many employees did your favorite Mom and Pop store ever have?

There's probably literally millions of jobs lost to Amazon's existence. Because they cut out a bunch of Mom, and Pop stores, and other Corporations which otherwise would have more employees as cashiers, stock boys, clerks, and so forth.

 

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Cool.

LOL, Amazon has cut the throats of a ton of Ma & Pa, businesses, and other corner stores, including corporate ones.

This has directly cut out a ton of jobs, consolidated into Amazons hands who in return hire far less than all these businesses would.

Why is this a good thing, exactly?

Oh, Bezos doesn't have enough money, boo hoo hoo.

How about Bezos pays for that wall?

No Mom and Pop store ever delivered my stuff to my door in 2 days or less.

No Mom and Pop store has ever carried absolutely everything I need or want under one roof.

Why do you want to live in the past where you had to waste time schlepping to 5 or 6 different Mom and Pop stores to get what you want?

So, we didn't lose enough jobs to foreigner immigrants, and outsourced jobs?

Now we need to lose even more jobs with Amazon consolidating jobs into the hands of fewer people?

How is this supposed to work out for the better societal gain, in the long run?

Amazon employs 650, 000 Americans

How many employees did your favorite Mom and Pop store ever have?

There's probably literally millions of jobs lost to Amazon's existence. Because they cut out a bunch of Mom, and Pop stores, and other Corporations which otherwise would have more employees as cashiers, stock boys, clerks, and so forth.

Sorry. That was Walmart