Comments by "Daniel Daniels" (@danieldaniels7571) on "Why does Amazon want to leave Seattle?" video.

I’m waiting for Amazon to buy a small country and relocate there to completely avoid taxes
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@lahicks9773 I think Elon Musk beat them to it.
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Mastodon1976 I don’t find it all that far fetched. Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s net worth, resources, and economy dwarf the economies and total wealth of several small third world countries. And it wouldn’t have to be a Crimea-esque overthrow like so much of this thread has been debating. For the right amount, most governments can be bought. Bezos has the wealth and global business to provide his newly acquired Amazon Basics Government with first world resources, food, and the civilian population with the promise of jobs, food, and a comfortable livelihood. I would imagine most citizens of a small struggling impoverished country would welcome that.
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Mastodon1976 not necessarily. As long as the subcontracted as needed to make sure all orders get delivered, maintained all web services, and the website and apps remained unchanged. I bet the average customer wouldn’t even notice the difference. And the government can’t just randomly hit them with a tax penalty if they don’t do anything to incur one. I’m not aware of a tax for moving operation to another country; people and companies do it all the time.
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@MasterMalrubius Absolutely no one has the authority to impose a worldwide tax rate of any kind.
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@mattmunn71 as would I.
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@gregcarlson6012 funny you would call me a Marxist. Do you know who I am at all?!? I’m Libertarian as fuck.
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@gregcarlson6012 I never said I did. You ain’t much for payin’ attention, is ya’?
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@hydrolito Why?
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@IHateMyAccountName How much is enough?
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@daveotuwa5596 to not be subject to the laws and taxation of the country and state they're currently located in and have complete and total control of their own government. Although the US is so deep into cronyism that it's arguable they already have that now.
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It's essentially welfare for the extra wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
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Mastodon1976 At this point I don’t think they could be. If the US government tried, Amazon has the means to move out and take the jobs and revenue generation with them, so as not to be subject to whatever legislation or court decision tries to make that happen. And surely congress realizes this and doesn’t want that to happen.
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@ericvulgate Halliburton? I’m not familiar with what that is at all. Please enlighten me.
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@zhuofanzhang9974 probably only it there’s profit involved
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@davidlafleche1142 Socialists dream of a society in which no one actually has any property or money of their own to tax.
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@samjordan8800 smart business man. 😎
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@johndaugherty7465 good point. The Corporate Republic of Amazon is sounding more viable every day.
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@weisserth Touché!
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