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Originally Posted by Montrealcorp
It all depends what taxes pay to make it beneficial or not for the economy .
The levels of taxation as nothing to do with it .
Nothing special about amazon employees paying taxes , all employed pays taxes , what your point ?
If amazon didn’t exist , other smaller companies would exist anyway .....but the difference is they would pay federal taxes ...
amazon wasn't paying taxes b/c it was in a growth phase, non profitable. Now that it's profitaable it will have to pay taxes.
Plus amazon's outside network of sellers is about 1 million, in addition to all the extra jobs they'll create, that should be more than combined of what there was previously.
Again, they should be taxed, but not to the point they just move overseas. The argument that if amazon didn't exist other companies would pay taxes just doesn't hold up as the markets are non-static. Amazon's office employees probably pay more in taxes than those other companies it replaced, which is hard to quantify as amazon is in like 50 different industries. The point again being the have CREATED value where there wasn't before, so a lot of those are new positions with higher salaries thanks to the new value they've built.