Boy, that was a ton of words you just put in my mouth.

You knocked the absolute shit outta that straw man.

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Now that I have time, let's respond to this properly.

Yup, and they successfully argued for years that their non-physical presence in a state meant they should not pay sales taxes in that state, effectively forcing states to subsidize Amazon at the expense of local businesses.

I wasn't talking about this. You brought it up because it's an easy point to make, one which I agree with but unfortunately this is where you began construction of the straw man.

I think you'll find employees of the company all paid taxes in the state they worked/got paid in.

So what you seem to be arguing is that logic dictates that anyone with the economic power to ensure or prevent the passage of laws is necessarily correct

This builds on the foundation of the straw man above.

No. With me, you'll do well not to try to read between the lines. I asked questions in almost all of my responses. What do people want? To force people not to move? To pay taxes in states they don't live in anymore? No one has engaged those questions because they know that's what would be required in this situation to get him to pay more state tax.

and that the only definition for a term like “theft” is the legal interpretation that you, as a non-lawyer, decide to apply

Oh, and then I asked if a buddy of mine who moved states is also a thief because he did the exact same thing with two other states. Y'know, to gauge what my interlocutor believed constituted "theft". Should they not be able to move? Should they be made to pay state taxes to a state which they don't live in anymore?

You’re saying that, despite centuries and millennia of colloquial usages of the term, both predating and concurrently used with the very restricted legal definition, any dictionary or other usage-derived definition is invalid.

Yeah I cheapens the word. If they were using it colloquially, one wonders why they didn't reply immediately clarifying what they meant. It's almost as if they didn't mean it that way...