Opinion

Leave Amazon alone

By Washington Examiner
Published April 7, 2018 4:00am ET
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Leave Amazon alone
Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, introduces the Kindle Fire at a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 in New York. The e-reader and tablet has a 7-inch (17.78 cm) multicolor touchscreen. | (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

President Trump spent the week attacking Amazon.com on Twitter and in his speeches, and his White House piled on.

Maryland’s legislature spent the week finalizing and passing a jaw-dropping $8.5 billion subsidy package for Amazon in hopes of getting the company to bring its second headquarters to the Free State.

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