It's older than 20 years, but not needing to collect sales tax was definitely a big benefit for Amazon (and other ecommerce providers) and presumably involved lobbying to keep it for as long as possible.
That wasn’t based on lobbying, it was the law at first and Amazon took advantage of it.
Amazon didn’t have any significant lobbying 20 years ago and it definitely was the behemoth it is today. That being said, even today it isn’t as large as Walmart and was definitely not a large retailer back then.
It was seriously in doubt 20 years ago whether Amazon would ever survive and definitely wasn’t consistently profitable.
I didn't say anything about "current administration", so I don't know why you think that is relevant.
Okay, name one law that was passed during the pass 20 years as a result of Amazon’s lobbying that was favorable to Amazon?
It's older than 20 years, but not needing to collect sales tax was definitely a big benefit for Amazon (and other ecommerce providers) and presumably involved lobbying to keep it for as long as possible.
That wasn’t based on lobbying, it was the law at first and Amazon took advantage of it.
Amazon didn’t have any significant lobbying 20 years ago and it definitely was the behemoth it is today. That being said, even today it isn’t as large as Walmart and was definitely not a large retailer back then.
It was seriously in doubt 20 years ago whether Amazon would ever survive and definitely wasn’t consistently profitable.
Totally, I completely agree that they didn't lobby for the original exemption.
However, I would be very surprised if they weren't lobbying heavily to keep said exemption for as long as possible.