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by frgtpsswrdlame 2839 days ago
>Just so long as you don't torture a combination of such factors that, low and behold, it happens to only apply to the individual / company that you have it in for.

>When you come up with a bill with an acronym "STOP BEZOS", I am pretty certain you've left the path of light and reason.

Except that the content of the bill is quite broad and definitely doesn't "torture a combination of such factors" to target Amazon. It will impact Amazon but it will also impact all of Amazon's competitors too, and companies completely outside of the sector. The dubiousness of your 'path of light and reason' aside, it seems quite irrational to decry a bill for its name and not its content.

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I agree with you, but the name of the bill could provide Amazon with a legal case to try and get the law struck down as a bill of attainder. The bill has good intentions, but Sanders shot himself in the foot with the execution.

Of course, that's purely hypothetical. There's no way this bill is going to pass, not with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress.