Amazon, And 56 0ther Corporations Took Your Tax Dollars

[skews13]

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 It was a big fat, gift withdrawn involuntarily from workers' pockets, wrapped in a fuzzy, flocked Amazon smiley bag, and deposited directly into corporate coffers.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

 

[Weatherman2020]

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.

 

[Norman]

This lie again?

Maybe try butthurt cream instead?

 

[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?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

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?

If you cannot compete, you go out of business...that is the free market.

People whined about WalMart and Home Deopt/Lowes doing the same thing.

 

[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?

If you cannot compete, you go out of business...that is the free market.

People whined about WalMart and Home Deopt/Lowes doing the same thing.

It's no wonder why America's real wages are in decline, despite a spike in productivity.

It's not bad enough that Illegals, H2B visa people cut down wages at home, and outsourced abroad. (All by Capitalism)

Now we have Internet corporations like Amazon cutting out cashiers, clerks, stock boys, etc. etc.

No wonder our nation stumbles.

 

[Weatherman2020]

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.

 

[Marion Morrison]

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.

They should pay taxes like everyone else.

 

[aaronleland]

Cool. I hope they spend it all on bitches and coke.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Cool. I hope they spend it all on bitches and coke.

or hookers and blow.

 

[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?

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.

 

[initforme]

Yep...but dig gone it the guy making 10 bucks per hour, working until exhausted, should pay taxes. Laughable .

 

[Marion Morrison]

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?

If you cannot compete, you go out of business...that is the free market.

People whined about WalMart and Home Deopt/Lowes doing the same thing.

I don't like any of them being able to do that!

 

[Missouri_Mike]

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.

Shockingly a tax code millions of pages long doesn’t work out like you want it to.

Maybe a flat tax of 10% is needed across the board.

 

[initforme]

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.

 

[Marion Morrison]

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.

Shockingly a tax code millions of pages long doesn’t work out like you want it to.

Maybe a flat tax of 10% is needed across the board.

I like Herman's idea of 9%

You do know we get taxed around 35-40% right now, correct? It's horrific, IMO.

 

[22lcidw]

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?

If you cannot compete, you go out of business...that is the free market.

People whined about WalMart and Home Deopt/Lowes doing the same thing.

It is more then the free market. You have people that worked for different unions who had the nation by the throat after WW2. When we still were Pax Americana. There are many people collecting massive pensions and benefits from that era even today. Remember when Obama saved GM? He actually saved the union and the retirees. At that time every car GM built had a 3 thousand dollar cost built into it for retirees. East Asia does not play. Just a small piece of a very large pie that is the reason we have Wal Mart. And thousands of taxes that make lower wage earners struggle big time.

 

[initforme]

Then some say hey don't get a college degree just start working in some company. That's even more pathetic.

 

[initforme]

Low wage earners struggle because low wages enable one to live in poverty. At best. 12 bucks an hour is El Zippo. Nothing. Nodda.

 

[Defiant1]

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?

If you cannot compete, you go out of business...that is the free market.

People whined about WalMart and Home Deopt/Lowes doing the same thing.

It's no wonder why America's real wages are in decline, despite a spike in productivity.

It's not bad enough that Illegals, H2B visa people cut down wages at home, and outsourced abroad. (All by Capitalism)

Now we have Internet corporations like Amazon cutting out cashiers, clerks, stock boys, etc. etc.

No wonder our nation stumbles.

How awful and terrible.

I can sit here at my computer, order the things I need online, and have them delivered to my door in a day or two.

What's this world coming to?