Seattle's Kshama Sawant warns Jeff Bezos after passing Amazon tax: 'We are coming for you'

Washington Times ^ | 7/08/20 | Valerie Richardson

[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Two years ago, the council passed and then promptly repealed a head tax on businesses with more than $20 million in annual gross revenue in the face of opposition from a coalition of businesses, including Amazon, that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.”

[marktwain]

I have modified Kipling's poem, for a parody which reflects the situation the progressives have placed us in:

Paying Progressive Dane-Geld

It is always a temptation to an entitled population
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We rioted last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation,  with Orwellian dictation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“You are oppressed. White men caused this mess.
We will pay you public cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation to a youthful population,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”

We have been paying Dane-Geld to progressive ideologists and cultural Marxists  for more than 50 years. The cost has been in the trillions. The damage done to our society, moral and Constitutional norms, is incalculable.  It must be stopped, before our nation is lost. We came very close to losing the nation.

[BenLurkin]

She needs a helicopter ride.

[Secret Agent Man]

Everyone needs to start sending this to the white house now, and every day until things start moving

[Jeff Chandler]

BEZOS SHRUGGED

[TLI]

HAHAHAHA!

The progs still can’t get it through their malfunctioning liberal “brains” that their virtsiging will not protect them from the communist monsters.

“Pro-to-prog combat.”

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[marktwain]

Exactly.

The Bezos operation is mostly in digital information.

It would cost less than one year’s tax to move to another location.

Maybe to Dallas, or Austin, Texas.

Maybe to Nevada, or to Utah...

[Vision]

Nasty foreigner.

[Fido969]

That worked really well for AOC.

[Starboard]

Send Nikki Haley with her.

*************

I second that and will donate money toward her airfare. ;)

[Huskrrrr]

Seattle will achieve shithole stays soon.

[TLI]

That one got by me...

It’s “Prog-to-prog combat.”

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[Starcitizen]

Bezos should fire all her fellow dot Indians

[PGR88]

Maybe Dr. Evil Bezos will have her killed, with sharks with lasers on their head.

[Bernard]

That works if he relocates the staff who live in Washington state. There is a cost in large staff turnover.

[sheehan]

Amazon is already moving to Bellevue in the eastside suburbs...

Sawant is batshit crazy and a hypocrite.

[right way right]

Nassty Socialist attacking a global elitist.

I’m torn...not really, Bezo with is WAPO and Amazon can rot.

[SunkenCiv]

“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.”

The Demwits are a collection of violent, rival gangs. That doesn't mean that, given the opportunity and no witnesses...

[jonascord]

She's been listening to her Minions tell her that she's brilliant, and that they will follow her anywhere.

Little yellow pill shaped people, all with the IQ of a Democrat, probably aren't the best advisors.

Apparently, this cupid stunt hasn't seen the movie... She is SO screwed. Cross-threaded, stripped, and over-torqued.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Haven't done business with Amazon in years and don't care if they are targeted.

People keep telling me how it is our job to defend the commies who are selling us rope by reciting that lame "I did not speak up" poem. Sorry. Not working this time.

Let them go down and I will dance on their grave.

[T.B. Yoits]

This Socialist is showing just how sick she is. Nothing like targeting an individual who she, as an elected official, is PAID to represent.

Flip it in the other direction. Amazon already offers a charitable donation when you shop. They can offer to add a "Seattle Surcharge" to every order she or any other Socialist makes and when she refuses, call her out as the hypocrite that she is.

At some point these Socialists need to be held criminally responsible for every penny of lost taxes from businesses they chase away.