Notwithstanding that, name a dollar figure above Bezos' wealth at which suddenly he can operate outside the law.
Above? He already does. He does not need to break the law in a literal sense: he can have teams of lawyers exploiting their way into not paying taxes faster than the state can patch the laws, avoid antitrust through lobbying, he owns a newspaper to influence public opinion and elections if needed…
wealth in itself doesn't lead to that level of power, at least in the Liberal world.
How many presidential pardons have been bought so far in the US this term?
he can have teams of lawyers exploiting their way into not paying taxes faster than the state can patch the laws
This is unsubstantiated.
avoid antitrust through lobbying
Lobbying does not guarantee any result, it is literally just asking the government for something you want. And, why does Amazon need to be subject to anti-trust? By far their most profitable product is AWS, and it has a ton of competitors.
How many presidential pardons have been bought so far in the US this term?
This says a lot about Trump, but pardons? That's it?
You previously implied that AMZ would find new, novel ways to skirt taxes through sheer lobbying, while your source just seems to plainly show that online sales taxes are now implemented. Lobbying does not make companies impervious to paying taxes.
Do we really need an enumeration of cases where corporations and the rich and are intertwined with political power in the west?
Not a level of power that allows them to completely operate outside the law.
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Above? He already does. He does not need to break the law in a literal sense: he can have teams of lawyers exploiting their way into not paying taxes faster than the state can patch the laws, avoid antitrust through lobbying, he owns a newspaper to influence public opinion and elections if needed…
How many presidential pardons have been bought so far in the US this term?
This is unsubstantiated.
Lobbying does not guarantee any result, it is literally just asking the government for something you want. And, why does Amazon need to be subject to anti-trust? By far their most profitable product is AWS, and it has a ton of competitors.
This says a lot about Trump, but pardons? That's it?
It is substantiated enough to have its own article on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax_avoidance
Do we really need an enumeration of cases where corporations and the rich and are intertwined with political power in the west?
If political pardons are too tame, or trump is considered an anomaly, we can just point in the general direction of Iraq.
You previously implied that AMZ would find new, novel ways to skirt taxes through sheer lobbying, while your source just seems to plainly show that online sales taxes are now implemented. Lobbying does not make companies impervious to paying taxes.
Not a level of power that allows them to completely operate outside the law.