{"id":10031,"date":"2018-03-28T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2018-03-29T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T00:38:08","slug":"trump-wants-to-go-after-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-wants-to-go-after-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants to go after Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5a00672558a0c1da4a8b53cb-960-480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5a00672558a0c1da4a8b53cb-960-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5a00672558a0c1da4a8b53cb-960-480.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5a00672558a0c1da4a8b53cb-960-480-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5a00672558a0c1da4a8b53cb-960-480-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/h6>\n<h3><strong>Business Insider<\/strong><br \/>\nby Bob Bryan<br \/>\n3\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>President Donald Trump is reportedly &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with Amazon.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The president is considering targeting the retail giant&#8217;s tax status or antitrust action.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Trump blames Amazon for the decline of brick-and-mortar retailers and the pain that has caused real-estate developers.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>And he thinks the company is getting a free ride from the US Postal Service.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"piano-inline\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>President Donald Trump is &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with Amazon, according to a new report, and is eyeing legal means to go after the online retail giant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-regulation-amazon-facebook-646c642c-a2d7-454b-a9a9-cdc6e4eaef2c.html\"> Axios&#8217; Jonathan Swan<\/a>, Trump believes Amazon is a negative force for smaller, locally owned retailers and wants to find a way to curtail the company&#8217;s dominance in online shopping. Among the options he is considering: a change to Amazon&#8217;s tax status or cracking down through antitrust rules.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Trump&#8217;s considerations come as the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-12\/bid-to-collect-internet-sales-tax-gets-u-s-high-court-review\"> considers a case<\/a> that would give states more power to collect sales tax on online retailers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While Amazon already imposes the applicable state sales tax on goods it sells, when a third-party seller uses the platform, it is up to that seller to collect sales tax. Many third-party sellers on Amazon do not currently collect those taxes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-amazon-wants-tax-antitrust-change-jeff-bezos-2018-3\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-amazon-wants-tax-antitrust-change-jeff-bezos-2018-3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Drew Angerer\/Getty Images Business Insider by Bob Bryan 3\/2018 Excerpt: President Donald Trump is reportedly &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with Amazon. The president is considering targeting the retail giant&#8217;s tax status or antitrust action. Trump blames Amazon for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-wants-to-go-after-amazon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10046,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}