dollars. this post office scam must stop. amazon must pay real costs and taxes now. my question to you, ali, if he wants amazon to do it, what about every other company that ships things? he s going after amazon as a proxy for a very different problem so let s break that down. then hate the game, not the player. well, he s hating the player and there are reasons for that and it has to do with the washington post of the the president loves to swing at amazon but is amazon to blame for problems at the post office and in the retail sector. let s take this one by one. on taxes, the president is likely talking about sales tax, something amazon doesn t collect from third-party sellers. when you buy on amazon, sometimes it s from amazon and sometimes it s a third-party seller. if you buy it from amazon, it does collect sales tax in 45 states where it s required to do so. third-party sellers are required to collect the sales tax themselves. the company has support for
what does it mean? it s unclear whether action is taken. and the president and lindsey walleters says there s no policies in the work now. the president says he s interested in looking at anti-trust regulations or how he could treat them with different tax treatment, but it s unclear whether he s actually going to move forward. leland: that s a knock on ama n amazon, you can t have to pay sales tax and now if you check your account you do. this would put up a rebuttal to the tweet. one person who expressed to the president, a negative story in the post is almost always the catalyst for one of his amazon rants. and amazon doesn t own the post, bezos does personally. as you mentioned the washington post put out this story and friday. leland: does that much your guy s reporting? about the story. basically the post says, you know, he hates the washington post as well in many ways, he
a lot of people feel they re not collecting the local sales taxes that need to be taxed. that s what the president was driving at. no, they do pay a lot of taxes. look, it is true that jeff bezos owns the washington post. there might be a personal feud here. do you think there s a political motivation to this. amazon doesn t own the washington post, jeff bezos does. do you think politics is part of what s driving this? who knows? it s quite possible. i think what s important here is what s the correct policy. i find myself against requiring these online retailers to have to collect the sales tax in these places because if you re an online retailer and you don t have a physical presence in that state, the supreme court has been pretty clear on this, you re not required to collect the taxes there. you re cleverly trying to say this in a lot of words here. you think the president is wrong on the policy? look, it s an honest dispute.
putting down their work and jeff bazo happens to be the richest man in the world. i think his amazon bashing is just an extension of his media bashing. jeff bazos owns the washington post. amazon doesn t, but jeff bazos does. and president trump has very confusing ideas about the relationship between amazon and the washington post, and if you look back at all the times he has attacked amazon, and there s been maybe a dozen tweets in the last year and a half, couple years, they ve often been prompted by what he sees as political coverage in the washington post. he s lashing out at amazon because he s angry about media ko coverage, essentially. i want to point out, the recent forbes billionaire is jeff bezos, $112 billion net
our secret weapon. sandra: even he has questioned whether his popularity will transfer into the mid terms. there s still quite a bit of time to go and a lot of it is going to hinge on what the economy looks like come the fall. here s the tweet you re talking about. he tweeted i have stated my concerns with amazon long before the election. unlike others they pay little or no tax to state and local systems and use our u.s. postal system as their delivery boy and putting thousands of retailers out of business. he s looking out for small business. that wasn t happening in the years leading up to him entering office. absolutely. small businesses are empowered. amazon doesn t have that sales tax. mom-and-pop businesses closing across the nation and president trump looking out for them and looking out for them on the