The weekend was just too busy to cover this story, which came out on Saturday, but it's worth covering now. It another occasion when a tweet helps as the way into the story as The Time story can be read by following the links through:
As quoted in @TimesBusiness, we find it unnerving that Amazon now sits on the CBI's Tax Committee, esp when the CBI have a position of blanket opposition to the Digital Services Tax.https://t.co/RKnNAmyH15
— Fair Tax Foundation (@FairTaxMark) November 7, 2020
The rest of the thread by my friends at the Fair Tax Mark (which I co-founded and still advise) read as follows:
This is corporate capture at its worst.
The Fair Tax Mark is right to highlight the issue.
We cannot afford this scale of monopoly power. Ultimately that comes at cost to us all.
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Apart from Fair Tax and a small part of the media, why is there no other exposure?
Is this because there are those, in the media and elsewhere, who are beholden to Amazon for support of their business?
Should we not be publicising businesses who do not use Amazon as part of their sales outlets?
I’m all for consultation on issues like this but co-opting vested interests like this is wrong – basically we are just looking at the worshipful deference to wealth.
I have just seen that the autumn rugby is going to be screened by Amazon ! This should not be allowed.
Does anyone remember the film “Rollerball”? The future is a world where there is no longer any need for governments, democracy or any of that rubbish. Everything will be owned and controlled by a small number of giant corporations and humans will just be cogs in their wheels. Get used to it. It cannot be stopped. Every vested interest thinks it is the right way forward.
I disagree….
I may be The Savage in Brave New World…
Don’t take this the wrong way but the only way I can afford to buy as many of Stephanie Kelton’s book for friends and family is from Amazon.
Believe you me I’ve looked high and low.
Very sorry to hear that PSR
Have you tried
https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Keyword?keyword=deficit%20myth&productType=0
– they were actually slightly cheaper than Amazon when I bought my copy?
Appreciate that Peter – but that’s not the case now. Given the volume I’m buying, it’s just does not work for me.