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How Amazon Became A Corporate Goliath
Mar 29, 2021
Amazon has become a powerful corporate giant because of special government benefits that ordinary Americans never receive.
Amazon has exploited tax loopholes, engaged in tax avoidance, lobbied against antitrust enforcement, and coopted the USPS, as Matthew Stoller explains.