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> he can have teams of lawyers exploiting their way into not paying taxes faster than the state can patch the laws

This is unsubstantiated.

> avoid antitrust through lobbying

Lobbying does not guarantee any result, it is literally just asking the government for something you want. And, why does Amazon need to be subject to anti-trust? By far their most profitable product is AWS, and it has a ton of competitors.

> How many presidential pardons have been bought so far in the US this term?

This says a lot about Trump, but pardons? That's it?



>This is unsubstantiated.

It is substantiated enough to have its own article on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax_avoidance

>This says a lot about Trump, but pardons? That's it?

Do we really need an enumeration of cases where corporations and the rich and are intertwined with political power in the west?

If political pardons are too tame, or trump is considered an anomaly, we can just point in the general direction of Iraq.


You previously implied that AMZ would find new, novel ways to skirt taxes through sheer lobbying, while your source just seems to plainly show that online sales taxes are now implemented. Lobbying does not make companies impervious to paying taxes.

> Do we really need an enumeration of cases where corporations and the rich and are intertwined with political power in the west?

Not a level of power that allows them to completely operate outside the law.




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