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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And yet proprietors of the likes of Joe Blow's Pizza and Aunt Ruth's Craft Barn seem to be mostly exempt from such aggressive moral oversight.
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Joe Blow's Pizza and Aunt Ruth's Craft Barn aren't being subsidized by local taxpayers like Amazon and Walmart (and other huge corporations). Amazon recently built a new warehouse near where I live. It cost the local community a lot of money for the infrastructure additions necessary. Property taxes jumped. Meanwhile Amazon gets 10 years of tax subsidies and other benefits. And, if they're like other corporations, they'll move out when that 10 years is up. So, unlike Joe Blow's Pizza and Aunt Ruth's Craft Barn, I have a financial stake in what Amazon does — therefore the right to complain about their shady practices. And if Joe Blow sells cardboard pizzas or Aunt Ruth sells crappy yarn, they go out of business.