DoorDash is selling out D.C. over a 20-cent delivery tax
Taxes,DoorDash,Culture,Food,Food Prices,Washington DC
Residents of Washington, D.C., don't have voting members of Congress, so we have no say in what happens on Capitol Hill. And if DoorDash gets its way, we will have even less say at City Hall.
The San Francisco-based company, worth about $73 billion, objected to a 20-cent fee on food deliveries that the D.C. Council recently enacted.
But rather than make its case to the district's elected leaders or persuade voters the fee was a bad idea, DoorDash went nuclear, publicly backing Republican legislation that would require Congress to approve any future local taxes or fees in the district...
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