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| Why dismantling Amazon really could rescue 'Trump country' |
| 2018-04-03 |
| President Trump is mad at Amazon. He thinks the retail behemoth is shortchanging the U.S. in taxes, ripping off the Post Office, and throwing "many thousands of retailers out of business." And the thing is, he's not wrong. Mega-corporations really are strangling the American economy ‐ and it's not just Amazon. If Americans want to restore a healthy share of economic prosperity to the U.S. hinterland ‐ the type of places that are (somewhat inaccurately) often classed as "Trump country" ‐ an attack on concentrated market power must be a key part of the equation. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 'Trump Country' is just fine. We don't need rescuing. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-04-03 22:00 |
| #6 "many thousands of retailers out of business"? I think I will get my DVD (which killed many thousands of Drive-In and small local movie theaters) and watch Danny DeVito's Speech to the Shareholders in Other People's Money(1991). |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-04-03 15:26 |
| #5 Funny how the heads of cramamazon, gurgle, farcebook, crapple et al like to advocate for socialist precepts when it comes to the handling of your finances but not theirs... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-04-03 12:22 |
| #4 What Standard Oil? ;-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-04-03 11:17 |
| #3 UPS - So a reduction in Social Justice Warriorism? Of the three mentioned above, FedEx seems to be most interested in taking care of business. USPO - Do I even have to go there? Mr. Bezos, etal. should spend some time reviewing the history of Standard Oil. |
| Posted by: Flinenter Glereling9074 2018-04-03 08:31 |
| #2 UPS, Fed Ex and USPS hit hardest. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-03 08:24 |
| #1 Tax patents and copyright title, not profits would be a good Capitalist start. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-04-03 05:47 |