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This is the Amazon way. Most Amazon drivers are 1099 independent contractors so that Amazon doesn't have to insure, give them benefits or pay any taxes on them. Plus they pay them less than 50% of what UPS drivers earn.
So why don't they go to work for UPS if it's so great?
I notice you didn't take me up on my offer to limit the POTUS now, deflector. I would just love to put the old filibuster rules back from before Obama's POTUS power was intensified which is now in the hands of your political enemies. Real smart.
This is why I utterly loath liberals , even more than draconian, war mongering, neocon, superstitious, sub moronic conservatives who think they know math. Yes, I loath lefties even more than them. Its astounding the the modern leftist cannot even compete with a pool of bloody mucus from a hypocritical dyspeptic ulcer. This is because the modern leftist is a rotting and festering corpse. At least a conservative know math exists, even if they fail to compute.
Seattle literally just passed an employee head tax aimed at Amazon where the city council was holding signs saying "TAX AMAZON!". No one questioned it.
Seattle literally just passed an employee head tax aimed at Amazon where the city council was holding signs saying "TAX AMAZON!". No one questioned it.
Well people are supposed to report their purchases for state sales taxes. However they don't. Mind you I think sales taxes are stupid because I only believe in user fees. I think property taxes, tolls , fees on contracts , rights of way, pass port services ,patents and copyrights, domain registries , band widths or any time anyone calls muh da guberment to enforce their access is a legit revenue source.
There is no doubt Amazon build its empire in part to tax avoidance. I am in a gray area here. Amazon gamed the system , but it was because it avoided a stupid thing to tax which is goods and services.
I think someone else might not know how it all , ya know, works.
The post office tried to do something smart. Normally when companies try to do something smart that turns out to be stupid, the stock holders have to deal with the problem. It might even be forced out of bidness. But da guberment cannot go out of bidness. da guberment is wide open , all the time.
It doesn't help USPS stay afloat. USPS actually operates at a loss delivering for Amazon.
As reported several years ago in the Wall Street Journal, a Citigroup analysis found each parcel gets a $1.46 subsidy.
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