Bezos bought the WaPo to influence legislation and the legislators that vote on it.
He wants the Marketplace Fairness Act passed in the House (already bought it’s passage in the Senate from Dirty Harry).
The MFA will seriously disadvantage small local businesses expanding onto the internet, leaving Bezos in control of the internet retail market and selling his services to those small entrepreneurs who sign up to be AZ affiliate sellers because the MFA makes it to difficult, confusing and expensive to do it on their own.
This is collusion and corruption between big business, big media and big government. Crony crapitalism is going to serve the rest of us a turd sandwich.
Obama sees the MFA as a cash cow that will save the profligate dem controlled states that are nearing bankruptcy (NY, CA, MA, etc).
Interesting thoughts. Thanks for the explanation.
Or, he doesn’t give a Rats A** about influence etc and will flip this to the Koch Brothers for a quick profit.
After all, the post would never sell directly to the Koch brothers.
And I bet there are (or will be) all sorts of restrictions on AZ Affiliate sellers, right?
No firearms dealers allowed, for instance.