Re:Googler... ex-Googler
by int_19h on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @05:19PM
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You can literally just punch "Amazon lobbying" into Google and get pages of results.
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Re:Googler... ex-Googler
by scarface_74 on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @06:55PM
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Okay? Name one policy that the current administration has done that helps Amazon?
I didn't say anything about "current administration", so I don't know why you think that is relevant.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler
by scarface_74 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @06:12AM
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Okay, name one law that was passed during the pass 20 years as a result of Amazon’s lobbying that was favorable to Amazon?
Re:Googler... ex-Googler
by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:52AM
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It's older than 20 years, but not needing to collect sales tax was definitely a big benefit for Amazon (and other ecommerce providers) and presumably involved lobbying to keep it for as long as possible.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler
by scarface_74 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:59AM
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That wasn’t based on lobbying, it was the law at first and Amazon took advantage of it.
Amazon didn’t have any significant lobbying 20 years ago and it definitely was the behemoth it is today. That being said, even today it isn’t as large as Walmart and was definitely not a large retailer back then.
It was seriously in doubt 20 years ago whether Amazon would ever survive and definitely wasn’t consistently profitable.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler
by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:11AM
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Totally, I completely agree that they didn't lobby for the original exemption.
However, I would be very surprised if they weren't lobbying heavily to keep said exemption for as long as possible.