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Domenico Montanaro @DomenicoNPR
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1/ .@realDonaldTrump is upset that @amazon, believes, gets a favorable deal on postage. But let’s count the ways he has benefited from tax breaks for his businesses or those associated with him from just a very cursory Google search:
2/ (1) @nytimes: Hotel Carrying New Trump Brand Secures $6 Million Tax Break
mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/bus…
3/ (2) @washingtonpost: Tax officials reduce Trump’s tax bill on D.C. hotel by nearly $1 million
washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/b…
4/ (3) Washington Business Journal: Major D.C. hotel project gets $40 million tax break
bizjournals.com/washington/mor…
5/ (4) @business: One Tax Loophole Untouched So Far: The Trump Golf-Course Break bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
6/ (5) Sought it, had it and lost it in Scotland newsweek.com/trump-loses-ta…
7/ (6) Palm Beach Post: EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago tax deal veiled from IRS review mypalmbeachpost.com/news/trump-mar…
8/ (7) @WSJ : Goat Herd Helps Trump Lower Tax Bite. As @Forbes notes: "he pays less than $1,000 in annual taxes on his golf properties instead of the $80,000 he’d be coughing up sans livestock and hay." wsj.com/articles/goat-…
9/ (8) @nytimes A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks nyti.ms/2cXa60i
10/10 That's right, Trump's empire is "built on" tax breaks, as the @nytimes has noted. Maybe for ideological consistency, if @realDonaldTrump wants to go after @amazon and China and whoever else for giving the American people a raw deal, he could start with Trump Org
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An ode to @realDonaldTrump...

How Do I Hate Thee? (Sonnet 43)

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I hate thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I hate thee freely, as men strive for right.
I hate thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I hate thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I hate thee with a hate I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I hate thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but hate thee better after death.

[Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
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.@realDonaldTrump hasn’t slammed Amazon on Twitter since it co-sponsored an event for government employees and contractors at his luxury Trump Hotel DC.
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