I'm all for raising taxation, but I've always felt Amazon is often the wrong target to pick on. They are a rare example of an old-school business in the digital age - they pinch every penny and then reinvest all revenues in the business itself or send them out as personal compensation. They don't stash billions in Bermuda accounts, they don't give them to Wall Street players with the right connections, they don't leverage their might to spike property prices, and so on. Amazon is what every big business could be if people at the top were a bit more concerned with actual efficiency and growth, and less with pure greed.<p>But: in their actual business practices, Amazon often squeeze the little guy - both their workers and their small-retail competitors - so they are easy to hate. They clearly display all the problems with cyberspace (who should be taxed where, when bits go up and down some fiber? Where is my data "in the cloud"? Etc etc), so they are at the nexus of a number of critiques, and rightly so. I personally don't think, though, that their overall investment/growth strategy should be attacked, because it's actually <i>very good</i> from a social perspective.