> Amazon was successful because for the first 10+ years they paid no sales tax
Quite a history revision.
1. Businesses do not pay sales tax - customers do. No online webstore collected taxes until recently. That was not something special for Amazon...
2. The business employs hundreds of thousands of people. All of which pay taxes. Even if the business itself literally paid zero dollars in taxes (lol), it is responsible for millions of dollars of taxes every month via payroll and employees buying things.
3. More taxes is not inherently better. What is up with people demanding more taxes be paid to the black hole that is the government?
This idea that businesses don't pay taxes and therefore are bad is totally naïve.
Quite a history revision.
1. Businesses do not pay sales tax - customers do. No online webstore collected taxes until recently. That was not something special for Amazon...
2. The business employs hundreds of thousands of people. All of which pay taxes. Even if the business itself literally paid zero dollars in taxes (lol), it is responsible for millions of dollars of taxes every month via payroll and employees buying things.
3. More taxes is not inherently better. What is up with people demanding more taxes be paid to the black hole that is the government?
This idea that businesses don't pay taxes and therefore are bad is totally naïve.