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President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com)
President Trump escalated his attack on Amazon on Thursday, saying that the e-commerce giant does not pay enough taxes, and strongly suggested that he may try to rein in the e-commerce business. From a report: The president took aim at Amazon's tax contributions, its use of the US Postal Service and practices that put "many thousands of retailers out of business!" The accusations aren't new. The tweet was likely prompted by an Axios story on Wednesday that claimed Trump was weighing "going after" Amazon over alleged antitrust activities or violations of competition laws. The Axios story appeared to contribute to a selloff of Amazon stock Wednesday, with Amazon shares dropping 4.4 percent, even though Trump's disdain for Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, was already well-known. Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose coverage has been less than glowing about the new president, which may be a factor in Trump's attacks. Trump's tweet, in full: I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!
It's called 'smash and grab' and has been common practice in DC for many decades. (Deliberately crashing a company's stock price so your friends can buy it up).
Did you object when any other admin did it? No...Well fuck off.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
1. POTUS job concerns everything in America. 2. Speculation. The city of Seattle where Amazon's home office is located has the most liberal city government in the country and just said the same thing, that Amazon doesn't pay enough taxes. 3. Tweets don't damage a company. It is the fear of regulation that affects the stock price. And stock price has almost no impact on the number of employees needed to perform their jobs besides some pressure on executives to streamline things if they aren't growing. If you want to look at what has affected stock price look at the department of treasury which has raised interest rates tremendously since Trump took office. 4. Every president has hired and fired tons of people the only difference is every change of position is publicized. 99% of the people that are getting 'fired' are in positions most people didn't even know existed until Trump was president. Everything Trump has done has improved the economy and security of the country. Name one thing where he has actually hurt the country besides a few people's feelings.
he's using his political position (i.e. POTUS) to affect a private corporation. That can't possibly be allowed.
It sure doesn't seem like it was a problem for Obama
Since you were cool with it for eight years it seems hard to think of why it's a problem now.
In fact many seem to be saying these days the President should be some kind of moral compass. In that case I would argue it's the president's duty to attack immoral actions by companies, as Obama did. Trump is merry carrying on Obama's traditions.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
What an asshat. No you dipshit. You lefties are confused. If you would just leave services like deliveries to the private sector, you wouldn't have our tax dollars that prop up the USPS subsidizing Chinese delivery. Private business would fix the price or go out of business. It's you fucking fagots that thing were deplorable and incapable of good thought that's the problem.