Posted on 07/08/2020 6:01:44 PM PDT by Libloather
Seattle city councilmember Kshama Sawant had a personal message for billionaire Jeff Bezos after the passage of the so-called Amazon tax, warning him that “we are coming for you.”
The avowed socialist framed Monday’s 7-2 council vote for the hefty payroll tax on larger businesses as a step toward the goal of overthrowing the “bankrupt system of capitalism” and replacing it with “a socialist world.”
“And if you, Jeff Bezos, want to drive that process forward by lashing out against us in our modest demands, then so be it,” she said in a video address that was posted Tuesday on Socialist Alternative. “Because we are coming for you and your rotten system.”
Two years ago, the council passed and then promptly repealed a head tax on businesses with more than $20 million in annual gross revenue in the face of opposition from a coalition of businesses, including Amazon, that sought to overturn the tax with a ballot referendum.
In her message, Ms. Sawant warned Mr. Bezos, the Amazon CEO and one of the world’s richest people, that he would face the wrath of “thousands” if he tried that again.
“I have a message for Jeff Bezos and his class,” Ms. Sawant said. “If you attempt again to overturn the Amazon tax, working people will go all out in the thousands to defeat you. And we will not stop there. Because you see, we are fighting for far more than this tax, we are preparing the ground for a different kind of society.”
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He’s “coming for” Jeff? Washington Post Jeff?
That’s gratitude for ya.
“toward the goal of overthrowing the ‘bankrupt system of capitalism’ and replacing it with ‘a socialist world.’”
Oh gag me already.
Send her back to India.
Send Nikki Haley with her.
Und zen, ve shall take over ze vorld!
Preparing the ground for a different type of society? Bring it you will regret it.
In the movies, saying that kind of thing to a billionaire, not just a billionaire but one of the richest billionaires on Earth, is a good way to get your lamp blowed out.
She the one who led rioters to the mayor's confidential address.
Socialist in name only. That, my friend, is the face and attitude of a Marxist. Time to start enforcing the laws regarding active partisanship to overthrow governments. .
Socialist is too nice a word for maggots like her. She’s a COMMUNIST PIG!
If we allow anti-Capitalists to dictate to America, we will cease to exist as a viable nation. This has to stop. Now.
If Bezos doesn’t get it, at this point, he’s truly delusional.
Socialism and communism are in all ways opposed to tye american way of life, and any socialist ought to be executed for formenting and causing sedition and treason.
“Kshama Sawant”
Is that some kind of breakfast food made for whole grains?
Since Amazon has no factories, Bezos can move his company outside of Seattle, or even to another state quite easily. He can expand his HQ in Arlington, VA. Hell, he can move it to anywhere with good internet. The idiot socialist fails to grasp that.
Not *modest* demands.
America destroying demands.
If they want a socialist paradise, they should move to Venezuela.
And it's not like Bezos is running a corner barber store. He can take Amazon anywhere and it'll only cost him the equivalent of a fast food meal for us.
I love it when they ‘eat their own’.
Poor little Jeffyboy. Sawant skank on the west coast, OAC on the East coast. what’s a capitalist to do?
No Sawant.
WE, the free, open minded and capitalist loving people of the Inited States are coming for YOU.
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