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Seattle’s Socialist City Council Punishes Amazon and Starbucks to Help Homeless…Liberals aren't as..
IWB ^ | Bob Shanahan

Posted on 05/17/2018 8:52:26 AM PDT by davikkm

On Tuesday, I wrote about the spike in homelessness on the West Coast and the insurmountable problem politicians face in tackling this troubling issue. There is no clear cut solution, but something needs to be done. California has an astonishing 24 percent of the country’s homeless population. More than 10 cities and counties along the West Coast have declared states of emergency due to the rise of homelessness. Seattle, Washington was one of them.

The socialists on Seattle’s City Council passed a head tax on big companies like Amazon and Starbucks to address the homeless crisis.

By Legacy Research

The unanimously passed legislation calls for a $275 per employee tax each year on for-profit companies that gross at least $20 million a year in Seattle, down from the initially proposed $500 per-head tax. On Monday, the council taxed the city’s largest employers even more to combat homelessness which prompted a state of emergency in late 2015. A tally last year counted more than 11,600 homeless people in King County alone.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: amazon; homeless; seattle; socialist; starbucks; taxes

1 posted on 05/17/2018 8:52:26 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Wonderful. Starbucks and Amazon. Aren’t they neet?


2 posted on 05/17/2018 8:55:49 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: davikkm

The law of “Unintended Consequences” will propel Seattle further into becoming THE global home refugees.


3 posted on 05/17/2018 8:56:29 AM PDT by Broker (All bills come for collection)
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To: davikkm

The three of them deserve each other.


4 posted on 05/17/2018 8:59:26 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: davikkm

Even if the new tax money can care for 11,600 homeless in the county, what happens to the 11,601? And the many more who will follow?


5 posted on 05/17/2018 9:01:59 AM PDT by kdot
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To: davikkm

I applaud this. Let the libs tax themselves to death, people will vote with their feet.


6 posted on 05/17/2018 9:02:27 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: jmaroneps37

Wonder how many Socialists are running Amazon? Funny thing about rich liberal socialists — they really don’t like it when it impacts them negatively. They are a hypocrites.


7 posted on 05/17/2018 9:03:18 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

Maybe Google, apple and FaceBook can use all their luxury coaches to move all the San Francisco homeless up to Seattle.


8 posted on 05/17/2018 9:07:18 AM PDT by spokeshave2 (Formerly as spokeshave...now restarted after computer issues.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Now you know why Amazon was looking for a second home..................


9 posted on 05/17/2018 9:08:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: davikkm

Even at $275, it’s still bad.
It is insane to tax people who ARE WORKING to pay those who DON’T WORK! You will get more people who don’t work! You will have fewer people willing to go to work to pay this idiot tax!
But this is the left. They don’t have a mind. All they have is a swirling mass of self-contradictory undifferentiated neurons firing on and off.


10 posted on 05/17/2018 9:11:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -Nietzche)
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To: spokeshave2
Lol. ...and house the homeless on their multimillion dollar gated estates. That would never happen. Rich liberals are snobs (in addition to being hypocrites).
11 posted on 05/17/2018 9:11:36 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ha! They will be run like a public utility... then forget it


12 posted on 05/17/2018 9:11:45 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: davikkm

Robots will solve this head tax for now.


13 posted on 05/17/2018 9:12:33 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: davikkm
The Lefty west coast is getting what they want.

Tell people that if you elect the democRATS, you will get all the free crap you need to live comfortably, who do you think they are going to attract?

The answer is, all of the drug-addled, mentally-ill, bottom feeders of the country.

democRATS, you want people who you fit your voter profiles and who expect taxpayers monies for doing nothing, then you've done a great job.

Now that you've made your bed with these people, you can lie with them and take care of them.

I hope your states and cities are overwhelmed by your generosity for those who do nothing productive in America.

14 posted on 05/17/2018 9:21:33 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: davikkm
I keep telling you people!

DO NOT INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY IN THE MIDDLE OF A MISTAKE!!!

Seattle's government model is unsustainable. When they go bankrupt, and the city council members are dangling from lamp posts, THEN we can use them as an object lesson in the resultant of Leftist Stupid.

15 posted on 05/17/2018 9:22:05 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: davikkm

Just like San Francisco is a magnet for gays...

Seattle is becoming a magnet for the homeless.

That only serves to help other states and cities get cleansed. Seattle is performing a great service, but not for the city or for “their” homeless. Seattle will also be helping other states and cities who will become a lot more attractive for businesses that don’t like to be taxed for purposes they don’t approve of.

But, like we all know, it’s not businesses that are being taxed, it’s the customers of those businesses that ultimately end up paying those taxes via higher prices for products and services that those companies will impose to pay for those higher taxes.


16 posted on 05/17/2018 9:46:11 AM PDT by adorno
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To: davikkm

““This City continues to spend without reforming and fail without accountability, while ignoring the plight of hundreds of children sleeping outside.”

So the solution here is more money for the city.


17 posted on 05/17/2018 10:34:04 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: DIRTYSECRET

What few Boing employees that are left will be soon moving to Chicago and/or South Carolina. I lived in South Carolina so I hope they move to Chicago.


18 posted on 05/17/2018 4:48:18 PM PDT by dirtymac
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