Posted on 11/10/2016 6:13:23 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
excellent post. I think if the illegal alien vote, plus the dead persons vote is removed, Trump won the popular vote by a large amount. California alone, could be in the hundreds of thousands. Over the next few weeks, Im going to see if my deceased Dad voted in Ca.
An interesting perspective. Certainly the Clinton campaign brought out the very worst in many American journalist & corporate manager elements. There will be a great crawling back under rocks in the next few weeks.
Karma and payback is a female dog in heat.
Bezos probably only has a stake of about 10% left in Amazon. Could be more interesting to watch his success in gaining vehicle flight ratings and approvals for space launch.
First bust up the media into much smaller operations.
We need to reduce the size, scope, power, and cost of government.
Remember when we used to go to malls to buy stuff? E-commerce is okay but the President-Elect appreciates physical spaces.
That's nice. Where does the Constitution authorize him to impose his personal preferences on We the People?
He works for US.
Never forget this.
He works for us, but Rodeo Drive helps make America great.
People who shoppe there won't be buying their stuff from Amazon. Shoppes like that are as much about being seen there (and photographed there) as they are about actually buying stuff. They're not in the same market.
I don't understand your point.
Bezos is not our friend.
That has been one of my biggest hopes with Trump, that Anti-Trust Laws will be enforced again.
And ...
Is your beef with Bezos in particular, or with internet based commerce in general? Amazon is hardly the only internet based merchant to fold the cost of shipping into the advertised price of the product.
Again, where is the President granted the authority to impose his personal shopping preferences on We the People?
It’s like he said Hillary shouldn’t have been allowed to run. That doesn’t mean he would have personally disallowed it. It’s the system that’s rigged. The whole Internet taxation thing is just one way it’s rigged.
Your suggestion that the President-Elect seeks authority to ‘...impose his personal shopping preferences on We the People . . . .’ is a bogus straw man. The President does, of course, have extensive authority to enforce the antitrust laws under the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act. Just because successive andministrations over the last 3 or 4 decades have countenanced many many anticompetitive mergers does not preclude the incoming Trump administration from revisiting ALL such mergers, past, present and proposed.
Your comment is absolutely irrelevant to the conversation in progress. Please read it from the beginning, so that you will understand the context of my remarks.
I like free shipping. I also like cheap prices at Walmart. But prices may go up when he renegotiates the trade deals. There are trade offs.
So what has any of this to do with disallowing "free" shipping? Who would do the disallowing?
I have no interest in giving even more power to government; no desire to let government control yet another aspect of our lives. Government power must be reduced.
Internet commerce, like mail-order commerce before it, is a reality. Merchants must adapt to that reality. Many of them do, and do so quite successfully. Most merchants I deal with on-line also have physical store-fronts somewhere that I could visit in person if I were so inclined. Some of them take advantage of that fact to offer me deals that internet-only merchants cannot. Government needs to keep its grubby fingers out of the business.
prices may go up [at Walmart etc] when he renegotiates the trade deals.
OK. Trade deals are negotiated with governments, and involve duties, tariffs, subsidies, and currency manipulation ... things way beyond the simple matter of payment for shipping and handling of sales taxes during on-line retail transactions.
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