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Everyone has been looking for loopholes for a very long time, and it turns out that the winners, for decades, have been those that discover and most effectively exploit them. Nothing is new except for possibly the brazenness.

Consider Amazon, whose founder is the wealthiest person in America. Its existence and early strength to a large part is due to a sales and use tax loophole that was eventually fixed.




That's what made online shopping attractive, not Amazon specifically.


That multiple companies benefited from a loophole doesn't magically make it any less of a loophole.




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