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Amazon, once again, considers moving employees out of Seattle
Biz Journals ^ | 8/14/20 | Tony Lystra

Posted on 08/14/2020 4:39:42 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: throwthebumsout

No problem. An exit tax will fix the deficit


21 posted on 08/14/2020 5:41:37 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: griswold3
Black Lives Matter in Seattle is now demanding that homeowners willingly give up their property to Black people as a form of reparations because they’re “coming for it” one way or the other.>

I will gladly deliver my property to them at 2700 feet per second and 147 grains at a time.

This BS must end. The left is raging, rioting, burning, pillaging and worse. The right is keeping it powder dry but we grow restless. When and if law and order truly breaks down outside of the insane cities such as Portland, the right will kill in defense of our great nation, our laws, and our sacred constitution from which made our nation great. To die for the constitution is a noble act, but it is far better for the enemy of the constitution to die.

22 posted on 08/14/2020 5:41:38 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughhneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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To: Intar

Redmond, Bellevue and other areas in Eastern King County are almost TOTALLY Indian-controlled and dominated. Google’s Indian workforce would fit right in.


23 posted on 08/14/2020 5:46:22 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Libloather

Moving out of Seattle..OOPS!


24 posted on 08/14/2020 5:46:34 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate of America and Freedom.)
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To: Starcitizen

Oops Amazon’s Indian workforce, not Google. Although in reality, it’s then same. Posting angry does that.


25 posted on 08/14/2020 5:47:22 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Actually liberals are extremely stingy. There are several studies documenting that the most generous people are conservatives. Even in cases like giving blood. Because of being stingy, they will not help fellow man directly, but they will work hard to force everybody else to help that fellow man! That is the essence of liberalism. Newest example - Kamala Harris gave NO money for charities on her last tax return available.


26 posted on 08/14/2020 5:52:24 PM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: throwthebumsout

Seattle was hostile to Boeing too. I don’t understand this extreme stupidity of biting the hand that feeds them.


27 posted on 08/14/2020 5:52:41 PM PDT by Aria
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To: AZJeep

During the passing of Obamacare - many Churches supported the law. They did not want to spend money helping the people, they wanted the collection plate dollars for their salaries and fancy houses.


28 posted on 08/14/2020 6:14:27 PM PDT by Aggie65
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To: Libloather
Amazon already has purchased the old Expedia building in downtown Bellevue, WA, which is 5 miles straight east of downtown Seattle, across Lake Washington.

They are building another office right across the street from Expedia. Construction on that building has completely stalled out. The exterior is finished, but very little progress on the interior that I can see from the street.

A very large building is under construction just two blocks from Expedia, directly in front of the Bellevue Transit Center. I do not know the owner, but I assume it's Amazon, because they own another large piece of land on the north side of the Transit Center.

If all these buildings really do belong to Amazon, their political and business confidence in Bellevue and Washington state is badly misplaced.

Bellevue - which is 40% foreign born - voted 30% for a Socialist Congressional candidate in 2018!

Washington state has no income tax. But, after the COVID Recession, it is just a matter of time before state government - massively Democrat - will start to tax the wealthy, then the affluent, and eventually everyone.

29 posted on 08/14/2020 6:16:04 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Aria

That’s why Boeing built the plant in South Carolina. And to avoid the unions. Boeing management isn’t terribly smart, after all they did move their headquarters to Shitcago, BUT they did recognize that sooner or later Seattle would become untenable as a manufacturing location. Look for them to move a majority of their manufacturing to SC in the next 5 years.


30 posted on 08/14/2020 6:17:45 PM PDT by technically right
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To: zeestephen

Bellevue - which is 40% foreign born - voted 30% for a Socialist Congressional candidate in 2018!

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Be clear, it’s a majority filthy Indian (and a few Communist Chinese) H1B trash.

The Bellevue Social Security Office is always full of Indians getting benefits fir their parents - who never worked a day in their pathetic lives in the US. Bellevue really are dangerous with throngs of foreign trash Indians driving like they are back home in India.

The Fred Meyer area in Bellevue near Bel-Red Road is overrun by Indians and Indian halal food places. Same with other Bellevue malls near the border of Redmond. Mostly Indian.

Indians are socialist, they bring that from their home country.


31 posted on 08/14/2020 6:34:15 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Libloather
I know some city council members in Federal Way who are wanting Amazon to settle there. The huge Weyerhaeuser property that is now vacant, would be a perfect location for them:


32 posted on 08/14/2020 6:46:54 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Libloather

Hell, about three quarters of the Seattle rioters will be out of their day jobs!!!!!


33 posted on 08/14/2020 6:49:06 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Libloather

Won’t happen. Bezos doesn’t care about his people.


34 posted on 08/14/2020 6:52:05 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

Just don’t move them to Idaho, Portland might be nice!!!


35 posted on 08/14/2020 6:53:33 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Libloather

They should leave the state.


36 posted on 08/14/2020 6:56:20 PM PDT by ncfool (Impeachment: The Democrat campaign to re-elect Trump - Keep America Great 2020)
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To: Libloather

There is a story about a boy and a wolf. The boy quickly found out that after bluffing several times no one listened to him anymore. Bezos needs to pay attention to that fable.


37 posted on 08/14/2020 7:34:44 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: ridesthemiles

However as a lifelong bookkeeper/accounting person I would have advised him long before new & the moving trucks would hve been there more than a month ago.”

I always thought that it was some kind of false pride that caused Bezos who started Amazon in south King County where there is a lot of land to install his business in downtown Seattle.

Gates has his many faults but at least he picked a big empty area where he had room to spread out.


38 posted on 08/14/2020 7:36:34 PM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: Libloather

If Amazon really wanted their employees to move out, they’d simply tell them that all the $$ for their bonus this year have been paid on Seattle’s payroll tax. And as long as they stay in Seattle, that’ll continue to happen.


39 posted on 08/14/2020 8:19:48 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: ridesthemiles

No income tax in Florida... Why should they just move 20 miles away?


40 posted on 08/14/2020 9:19:20 PM PDT by GOPJ (If YOU live in a looted burned out America hellhole, YOU elected a democrat mayor.)
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