Amazon, And 56 0ther Corporations Took Your Tax Dollars

[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 It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers.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?

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

 

[Blues Man]

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.

Probably literally?

SO you don't know how many jobs were "lost".

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

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.

Probably literally?

SO you don't know how many jobs were "lost".

We know that Mom & Pop stores, and even bigger Corporations like Sears, JC Pennys, and Macy's have all been hurt by Amazon, to the point of on the verge of collapse.

The fact of the matter is Amazon clearly takes away jobs, and consolidates them into fewer positions.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

 

[Rustic]

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

Lol
You have no understanding of rural America... obviously

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

Lol
You have no understanding of rural America... obviously

Rural America has scarcer jobs, and how is Amazon taking down it's local Sears, or JC Pennys out of jobs, going to help their economies exactly?

I live in rural America, just it's mostly Italians, and Irish Catholics here.
A lot better than those Germanic Protestant savages (Anglo & Saxon) who liter the South, and Mid-West.

 

[Moonglow]

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

Lol
You have no understanding of rural America... obviously

Rural America has scarcer jobs, and how is Amazon taking down it's local Sears, or JC Pennys out of jobs, going to help their economies exactly?

I live in rural America, just it's mostly Italians, and Irish Catholics here.
A lot better than those Germanic Protestant savages (Anglo & Saxon) who liter the South, and Mid-West.

We drive less by ordering online than driving to a store..

 

[jasonnfree]

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?

If the Mom and Pop operations had similar favorable tax treatments.....they would have employed a lot more people, that's for sure. A pretty good u tube clip below with Ralph Nader explaining how the big money, big corporations have taken over America.

 

[BluesLegend]

That's right. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018

I don't think you know what a corporation is. What employees are. Or how to generate tax revenue.

 

[Papageorgio]

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.

It happens every year, usually 55-60 companies per year pay no taxes and Congress does nothing. Being paid off by big business for tax favors seems to be a ritual in Congress.

 

[Likkmee]

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.

Probably literally?

SO you don't know how many jobs were "lost".

We know that Mom & Pop stores, and even bigger Corporations like Sears, JC Pennys, and Macy's have all been hurt by Amazon, to the point of on the verge of collapse.

The fact of the matter is Amazon clearly takes away jobs, and consolidates them into fewer positions.

Bullshit. Thousands of companies sell via Amazon and those companies have hundreds of thousands or millions of employees all over the planet. They only coordinate most of it. It's like ebay x 100,000

 

[Wyatt earp]

This young generation of American workers is the most productive generation this nation has ever seen. Wages are stagnant but corporations can take advantage of them for practically zero pay.

How, with training and computers the company's provide?


.

 

[Wyatt earp]

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

Lol
You have no understanding of rural America... obviously

Rural America has scarcer jobs, and how is Amazon taking down it's local Sears, or JC Pennys out of jobs, going to help their economies exactly?

I live in rural America, just it's mostly Italians, and Irish Catholics here.
A lot better than those Germanic Protestant savages (Anglo & Saxon) who liter the South, and Mid-West.

No you don't you fucking liar, jobs a plenty in red states like South Carolina

 

[Rustic]

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

Lol
You have no understanding of rural America... obviously

Rural America has scarcer jobs, and how is Amazon taking down it's local Sears, or JC Pennys out of jobs, going to help their economies exactly?

I live in rural America, just it's mostly Italians, and Irish Catholics here.
A lot better than those Germanic Protestant savages (Anglo & Saxon) who liter the South, and Mid-West.

What do you call rural America?
I live over 100 miles from the closest town...

 

[Moonglow]

I don't pay taxes just like the big guys...I know how the game is played..

 

[Rustic]

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?

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

Na, not really

 

[Rustic]

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?

If the Mom and Pop operations had similar favorable tax treatments.....they would have employed a lot more people, that's for sure. A pretty good u tube clip below with Ralph Nader explaining how the big money, big corporations have taken over America.

The key is everyone should pay less taxes on everything… Both rich and poor

 

[Aldo Raine]

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...

Really, how so and be specific. This will be a beautiful dance.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

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.

We have representation, if we do not hold them accountable then that is on us, not them.

 

[Likkmee]

Amazon employs 650, 000 Americans

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

Yep,
Amazon Benefits rural America....

Anyone who thinks Amazon, or Bezos the Democrat is benefiting America, has a few screws loose to say the very least.

He has consolidated jobs into fewer hands, and consolidated wealth into his own hands to a ridiculous degree.

Lol
You have no understanding of rural America... obviously

Rural America has scarcer jobs, and how is Amazon taking down it's local Sears, or JC Pennys out of jobs, going to help their economies exactly?

I live in rural America, just it's mostly Italians, and Irish Catholics here.
A lot better than those Germanic Protestant savages (Anglo & Saxon) who liter the South, and Mid-West.

What do you call rural America?
I live over 100 miles from the closest town...

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