Break Up with Amazon: A Citizen’s Guide to Ending Amazon’s Government Contracts

A recent investigation by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has uncovered that Amazon is capturing billions of dollars in government purchasing in cities, counties, and school districts across the country. This drove up costs for governments, eliminated transparency, and eroded competition by pushing out better-performing, more accountable independent suppliers. The disappearance of these small and mid-sized businesses weakens local economies and tax bases. And it leaves governments increasingly dependent on Amazon, paving the way for the kind of monopoly control that ensures higher prices, poorer service, and less innovation.

Our public dollars should support local independent businesses and good jobs, not corporations that back ICE, fund Trump’s White House expansion, and benefit from billionaire tax cuts.

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This even will be held on Thursday, January 8 at 4:00 pm.