http://dagblog.com/link/here-s-why-trump-went-postal-amazon-24855 Comments for "Here’s Why Trump Went Postal on Amazon" en http://dagblog.com/comment/250856#comment-250856 <a id="comment-250856"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/here-s-why-trump-went-postal-amazon-24855">Here’s Why Trump Went Postal on Amazon</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-30/amazon-said-to-sever-ties-with-top-lobbying-firms-in-washington">Amazon Severs Ties With Top Lobbying Firms in Washington</a></p> <p>By Ben Brody, Spencer Soper and Jennifer Jacobs @ Bloomberg.com, March 30</p> <ul><li> <p><em>Akin Gump and Patton Boggs said to have been fired last week</em></p> </li> <li> <p><em>New Amazon hires in Washington include Brathwaite and Holly</em></p> </li> </ul><blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/AMZN:US" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="profile">Amazon.com Inc.</a> cut ties with Washington’s biggest lobbying firm and brought on new advisers following passage of the tax overhaul bill last year and in the face of new challenges in the age of President Donald Trump.</p> <p>The shakeup occurred last Friday, a week before Trump briefly sent Amazon’s stock tumbling with a Twitter attack on the world’s largest online retailer. Trump charged that Amazon doesn’t pay enough in state and local sales taxes, hurts retailers and gets an unfair edge on the back of the U.S. Postal Service [....]</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:42:21 +0000 artappraiser comment 250856 at http://dagblog.com