From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-05 9:33 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
      
   > Jeff Bezos hasn't been having any fun with his plaything, the Washington   
   > Post, which is political dynamite with respect to angering Trump. I   
   > never quite understood what his intent was on changing its business   
   > model.   
      
   Trump-GOP Law Slashes Amazon's Tax Bill   
   by 87% as Company Fires 30,000 Workers,   
   Profits Soar   
   Feb 6   
      
   The tax law that congressional Republicans   
   and US President Donald Trump enacted last   
   summer has proved to be a massive boon for   
   Amazon, slashing the corporate behemoth's   
   2025 tax bill even as its profits surged   
   and it moved ahead with mass layoffs that   
   have cost 30,000 workers their jobs since   
   October.   
      
   Citing a new securities filing, the Wall   
   Street Journal reported Friday that   
   Amazon's "current US taxes, an accounting   
   measure of taxes incurred last year,   
   declined to $1.2 billion from $9 billion"   
   while the company's "pretax US profit   
   increased by 44.5%, to $89.5 billion. On   
   a cash basis, the company paid $2.8 billion   
   in federal income taxes last year after   
   paying more than $7 billion in each of the   
   prior two years."   
   https://www.commondreams.org/news/amazon-tax-breaks   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   He's fired all editorial employees and news will now be delivered   
   > by picking it off shelves at an Amazon warehouse according to a computer   
   > algorithm.   
      
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