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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4387580" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>Nah. Bezos is smart enough to know his money is better spent buying politicians than trying to buy the voters. And that it only costs a fraction as much to do so. </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-amazon-lobbying/" target="_blank">Amazon Is Flooding D.C. With Money and Muscle</a></p><p></p><p>"Federal records show that Amazon.com Inc. lobbied more government entities than any other tech company in 2018 and sought to exert its influence over more issues than any of its tech peers except Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Last year, Amazon spent $14.2 million on lobbying, a record for the company, up from its previous high mark of $12.8 million in 2017. The $77 million that the nine tech companies in the charts below spent in 2018 to lobby Washington looks minuscule next to the $280 million spent by pharmaceutical and health-care products companies. Tech has, however, pulled ahead of the $64 million that commercial banks spent—and Amazon in particular has a cachet that allows it to punch above its weight at times. Of the nine, only the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/google-set-2018-lobbying-record-as-washington-techlash-expands" target="_blank">$21 million Google spent on lobbying</a> beat Amazon’s total. Since 2012, Amazon has ramped up spending by more than 460 percent—much faster than its rivals."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4387580, member: 48469"] Nah. Bezos is smart enough to know his money is better spent buying politicians than trying to buy the voters. And that it only costs a fraction as much to do so. [URL="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-amazon-lobbying/"]Amazon Is Flooding D.C. With Money and Muscle[/URL] "Federal records show that Amazon.com Inc. lobbied more government entities than any other tech company in 2018 and sought to exert its influence over more issues than any of its tech peers except Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Last year, Amazon spent $14.2 million on lobbying, a record for the company, up from its previous high mark of $12.8 million in 2017. The $77 million that the nine tech companies in the charts below spent in 2018 to lobby Washington looks minuscule next to the $280 million spent by pharmaceutical and health-care products companies. Tech has, however, pulled ahead of the $64 million that commercial banks spent—and Amazon in particular has a cachet that allows it to punch above its weight at times. Of the nine, only the [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/google-set-2018-lobbying-record-as-washington-techlash-expands']$21 million Google spent on lobbying[/URL] beat Amazon’s total. Since 2012, Amazon has ramped up spending by more than 460 percent—much faster than its rivals." [/QUOTE]
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