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Why is this galling? Companies that don't make much profit don't pay much in the way of income taxes.



Actually, Washington state taxes revenue not profit. It's a terrible system but Amazon is certainly dodging paying taxes while running a vast amount of their business out of Seattle.


I don't see how you could make a top line revenue tax that didn't cripple your economy but wasn't also easy to get around.




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