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Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill
ralphart writes with this excerpt from the Dallas Morning News:
"As a result of an ongoing tax dispute with Texas, Amazon.com has decided to take its ball and go home. The online retailer said Thursday that it would shutter its Irving distribution facility April 12 and cancel plans to hire as many as 1,000 additional workers rather than pay Texas what the state says is owed in uncollected sales tax. Texas wants $269 million from Seattle-based Amazon in past-due sales tax. It sent the bill to the company last October."
We've discussed the online retailer's tax battles with other states in the past.
The middle class deserve to be humped. They're rich enough to consider themselves "better" than the poor, and not rich enough to realize that they're not.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
PeeTardiers
You realize anyone with more than an ounce of intellect will hit this word and just stop reading, and assume everything else you have to say will be also be on the level of a mentally challenged toddler?
Texas was trying to collect tax from *before* Amazon was in the state. You don't even grasp a single molecule of the basic parameters of the issue. You're just a blithering ideologue who needs mental counseling.