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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) vowed on Thursday to fight to “break up Big Tech” companies so they are not powerful enough to “heckle senators with snotty tweets.”
Warren advanced this anti-free speech argument after the Twitter account for Amazon News challenged the progressive senator when she falsely asserted that Amazon paid “close to nothing” in federal taxes.
“Giant corporations like Amazon report huge profits to their shareholders – but they exploit loopholes and tax havens to pay close to nothing in taxes,” Warren tweeted Wednesday, sharing a clip from a Senate Finance Committee hearing in which she argued for legislation to increase the tax burden on corporations.
Warren claimed that between 2018 and 2020, when the corporate tax rate was 21 percent, Amazon only paid an effective tax rate of 4.3% by exploiting various loopholes, deductions, and profit-shifting provisions of the tax code.
Amazon News responded to Warren’s tweet telling her, “You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them.”
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