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Where is the comment here on billionaire taxes? Literally Amazon is the only company because of which I feel comfortable right now sitting in my house vs. pani

Where is the comment here on billionaire taxes? Literally Amazon is the only company because of which I feel comfortable right now sitting in my house vs. panic buying.

rosybox 7y ago
You likely couldn't panic buy anyways, stores are limiting what you can buy. Online and offline.
- supdatecron 7y ago
  I got groceries today in a large metro city. Only thing limited was milk.
  - jackson1442 7y ago
    HEB has a laundry list of things being limited[1]. [1]: https://newsroom.heb.com/product-purchasing-limits/ https://newsroom.heb.com/product-purchasing-limits/
lexs 7y ago
What does this have to do with billionaire taxes?
satysin 7y ago
Here in France literally everything on Amazon.fr that I would like to order is unavailable for delivery until next Monday. In Lyon at least. I won't say everything is like that but I have been looking at some school supplies as my son is home and I have been unable to find anything for delivery this week.
- progval 7y ago
  In Melun it's delay by only one or two days compared to baseline.
Frost1x 7y ago
I'll be more than happy to step in for that void. Amazon and Bezos should certainly be taxed their share. I for one don't want to support tax avoidance/evasion and theft from labor. They're not running a charity work or a public service disguised as Amazon marketplace (there is Amazon Smile to be fair) by any means, at least not to my knowledge. Amazon doesn't make me feel any bit safer and no business should be capitalizing on panic buying, be it a local business or Amazon. They're running Amazon and hiring more workers because there's a massive opportunity to further stamp out their retailer competition, solidify their foothold further, and make money... not out of the goodness of their investors hearts. It's about money/business opportunity, not your security.
- WalterBright 7y ago
  And Amazon makes money by providing people with goods and services that they need in a manner safer than alternatives. Nothing wrong with that.
  - nightski 7y ago
    Nothing wrong with that, but it seems reasonable to me that once a company goes public (or hits a certain size), it no longer makes sense for one individual to have such a large stake in it no matter how essential.
    - WalterBright 7y ago
      If Amazon fails to behave, Walmart is ready & able to step in.
  - AQuantized 7y ago
    There's nothing wrong with that in of itself, but if it stomps out any potential competition and renders them unable to compete after a certain degree of monopolization, what sort of position will consumers eventually be placed in?
    - mschuster91 7y ago
maest 7y ago
Bezos shouldn't be taxed because his company is offering a service people are using?
opportune 7y ago
Ah yes, because if bezos had to pay some tax on unrealized capital gains, the entirety of Amazon would come crashing to a halt

Where is the comment here on billionaire taxes? Literally Amazon is the only company because of which I feel comfortable right now sitting in my house vs. panic buying.

rosybox 7y ago

You likely couldn't panic buy anyways, stores are limiting what you can buy. Online and offline.

supdatecron 7y ago
I got groceries today in a large metro city. Only thing limited was milk.
- jackson1442 7y ago
  HEB has a laundry list of things being limited[1]. [1]: https://newsroom.heb.com/product-purchasing-limits/ https://newsroom.heb.com/product-purchasing-limits/

lexs 7y ago

What does this have to do with billionaire taxes?

satysin 7y ago

Here in France literally everything on Amazon.fr that I would like to order is unavailable for delivery until next Monday. In Lyon at least. I won't say everything is like that but I have been looking at some school supplies as my son is home and I have been unable to find anything for delivery this week.

progval 7y ago
In Melun it's delay by only one or two days compared to baseline.

Frost1x 7y ago

I'll be more than happy to step in for that void. Amazon and Bezos should certainly be taxed their share. I for one don't want to support tax avoidance/evasion and theft from labor. They're not running a charity work or a public service disguised as Amazon marketplace (there is Amazon Smile to be fair) by any means, at least not to my knowledge. Amazon doesn't make me feel any bit safer and no business should be capitalizing on panic buying, be it a local business or Amazon. They're running Amazon and hiring more workers because there's a massive opportunity to further stamp out their retailer competition, solidify their foothold further, and make money... not out of the goodness of their investors hearts. It's about money/business opportunity, not your security.

WalterBright 7y ago
And Amazon makes money by providing people with goods and services that they need in a manner safer than alternatives. Nothing wrong with that.
- nightski 7y ago
  Nothing wrong with that, but it seems reasonable to me that once a company goes public (or hits a certain size), it no longer makes sense for one individual to have such a large stake in it no matter how essential.
  - WalterBright 7y ago
    If Amazon fails to behave, Walmart is ready & able to step in.
- AQuantized 7y ago
  There's nothing wrong with that in of itself, but if it stomps out any potential competition and renders them unable to compete after a certain degree of monopolization, what sort of position will consumers eventually be placed in?
  - mschuster91 7y ago

maest 7y ago

Bezos shouldn't be taxed because his company is offering a service people are using?

opportune 7y ago

Ah yes, because if bezos had to pay some tax on unrealized capital gains, the entirety of Amazon would come crashing to a halt