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Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now

Is Jeff Bezos a coward? Let’s find out.

Punchbowl News, a new-ish DC publication which has an excellent record of political scoops but hasn’t done much tech reporting, published a single-sourced rumor that Amazon would soon begin showing tariffs next to prices. I say this bluntly because Bezos has spent the past year utterly tearing apart the Washington Post, causing one of our nation’s most important news outlets to bleed subscribers, reporters, editors, cartoonists, standing, and morale, in service of his “two pillars:” personal liberties and free markets. What we have here is one of America’s richest men, insisting that his wealth and principles will protect his newspaper from intimidation while it pursues an advocacy campaign for free markets, all while the White House calling the mere idea that Amazon might display pricing information a “hostile and political act” causes his company to cave.

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