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GOP Tax Cuts: Amazon's Bill Plunges

Republicans' tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon's tax bill, new government filings show. The company says it ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, and even as its profits jumped by 45 percent to nearly $90 billion.

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In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion."
That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill
www.politico.com/news/2026/02 ... [image or embed]
-- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) Feb 6, 2026 at 2:33 PM

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... That's largely because of the generous new depreciation breaks GOP lawmakers included in their One Big Beautiful Bill, something that's particularly important to Amazon which -- in addition to maintaining a vast infrastructure for its ubiquitous delivery business -- has been spending billions to build out artificial intelligence data centers. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-07 07:52 PM

So, Mr Bezos' sucking up to Pres Trump seems to have had its benefits.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-07 07:53 PM

"Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts"

Which means Bezos will reduce prices and give employees a raise! Right? Right?

#3 | Posted by censored at 2026-02-07 08:10 PM

Your Oligarch-Owned Government in Action!

And all it took was sticking it to most Americans... and that's only just started.

(oh, and murdering half a million people, mostly children, mostly by starvation)

Trumpers SO Proud!

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-07 08:10 PM

Washington Post chief executive steps down after mass lay-offs

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-07 08:20 PM

@#4 ... Your Oligarch-Owned Government in Action! ...

Yup.

Billionaires are gonna want tax cuts for billionaires.

Regardless of the cost to Americans.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-07 08:20 PM

"If we raise taxes on companies, prices will go up!"
-Pedo GOP

We lower their taxes and prices still go up.

Apparently corporate taxes have nothing to do with prices.

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-02-08 04:33 AM

There's a famous Chinese proverb that I learned while living there: "When the elites suffer, the common people suffer. When the elites prosper, the common people still suffer."

#8 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-02-08 11:44 AM

So...the rest of us have to work another year...or two.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-08 12:09 PM

well, duh. Bezos openly bribed the Trump family with that ridiculous propaganda fluff piece on Melania. Now comes the payback.

#10 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-02-08 12:47 PM

And "conservatives" wonder why the national debt is skyrocketing! Trump's breaking records for budget deficits. Interest on the national debt has now exceeded the entire annual defense budget.

It began with Bush's 2 tax cuts and continued with Trump's 2 tax cuts.

Tax cuts don't lead to economic growth and they don't "trickle down" to benefit the vast majority of Americans. They only enrich high net worth individuals and corporations while saddling generations with debt.

#11 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-02-08 01:57 PM

AH, but wait... the profits of the Billionaires is going to Trickle Down upon us all!

Unless, of course, they don't, which they never ever have.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-08 02:13 PM

Why the giant headline?

This is just Trump SOP.

Nothing new or unexpected.

#13 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-02-08 02:20 PM

Bezos paid Trump $40 million for the 'Melania' documentary.

Now, Bezos saves $8 billion because of Trump's corporate tax cuts.

While 17 million Americans lose health care.

Corruption, plain and simple.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-08 03:10 PM

Ironically, a fluff piece about a professional -------.

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-08 04:19 PM

How much is enough? How corrupted can a person be where they find out they can never return to being part of the whole, of humanity?

#16 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-02-09 08:11 AM

If you don't like this, then don't buy from Amazon.

Easy.

#17 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-02-09 01:20 PM

#17

How quaint... and how pretentious.

When did you decide that it's OK for the People to be replaced by the Oligarchs who buy and sell the People's Representatives in Government?

At birth, I bet.

You do realize that you are not now and will never be one of them, don't you? That they would not bother to piss on you if you were on fire... and they needed to pee.

But you are the kind of person they rely on to stay in power; someone with just enough to scoff at most people, but not enough to ever threaten them.

Money was always power, but now it's been made Speech under the Law.

Someone once said that, not money, but the love of money is the root of all evil in the world. It turns never-will-be's into wannabes who spend their time looking down on most people because they have a bit more of it... but never enough.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-09 01:40 PM

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