She threatened to break them up so they can’t HECKLE her.
Gee. What fun.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is a true socialist authoritarian who is now threatening to break up the massive company, Amazon, because they criticized her on Twitter. Here’s how it began.
Warren released a video decrying Amazon for making huge profits and paying ‘close to nothing’ in taxes:
Giant corporations like Amazon report huge profits to their shareholders – but they exploit loopholes and tax havens to pay close to nothing in taxes. That’s just not right – and it’s why I’ll be introducing a bill to make the most profitable companies pay a fair share. pic.twitter.com/vPrmGbjUKW
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 25, 2021
But Amazon hit back, explaining how they’ve paid billions in taxes over the last few years and that if she doesn’t like the tax laws that they obey, then she should change them:
1/3 You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them. Here are the facts: Amazon has paid billions of dollars in corporate taxes over the past few years alone.
— Amazon News (@amazonnews) March 26, 2021
3/3 So what have we done about that? $350B in investments since 2010 & 400K new US jobs last year alone. And while you’re working on changing the tax code, can we please raise the federal minimum wage to $15?
— Amazon News (@amazonnews) March 26, 2021
This response didn’t sit well with the despot from Massachusetts. She responded by threatening to break them up solely so they couldn’t heckle her on Twitter:
I didn’t write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon – your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did. But you bet I’ll fight to make you pay your fair share. And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets. https://t.co/3vCAI93MST
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 26, 2021
Seriously, she said this: “And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.”
Wow. And Democrats said Donald Trump was thin-skinned. She’s literally threatening to use the power of government to silence a company because they criticized her on social media! Free speech for me but not for thee – unless you love me!
A few responses…
A U.S. senator wants to use the law to render a business so powerless that it can't annoy her with online criticism? Huh. https://t.co/GEwRY77DNJ
— J.D. Tuccille (@JD_Tuccille) March 26, 2021
That's exactly what yesterday's hearings were about. Democrats who know they cannot outlaw criticism of them or their presidential nominee, instead exert pressure on corporate America to do it for them. https://t.co/oWEUYZf9AO
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) March 26, 2021
Stop making me like Amazon! https://t.co/RN5fNnV8WD
— Ryan Horton (@ryanhorton) March 26, 2021
I think Amazon is strating to understand why an alliance with Socialists is a bad idea https://t.co/3fvzVDt54t
— Rabbi-who-have-No-Knife (@FreeManDespair) March 26, 2021
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