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Amazon shelves Seattle expansion plans over proposed tax hike
Seattle Times via oregonluve.com ^ | May 3, 2018 | The Seattle Times

Posted on 05/03/2018 5:44:05 PM PDT by John W

The company that's conquered the world of online retail is now taking on its hometown City Hall, with Amazon delivering an unprecedented public threat Wednesday against a proposal for a new tax on large employers in Seattle.

The retail giant has paused construction planning on a new downtown Seattle tower until the City Council votes on the tax to fund homelessness programs, a spokesman said.

Amazon also may sub-lease rather than occupy space in a skyscraper under construction downtown, said the spokesman, Drew Herdener

(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: amazon; seattle; taxes
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1 posted on 05/03/2018 5:44:05 PM PDT by John W
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To: John W

No one is so big that they cannot be bitten on the ass by radical liberalism.

I’ve always said that.


2 posted on 05/03/2018 5:54:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: John W

Sounds to me like Amazon HATES the homeless.


3 posted on 05/03/2018 5:54:44 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: John W

Since they’re building another HQ elsewhere, they’re better off pulling out of Seattle and going to a red state. Besides, the Seattle area is overdue for a large earthquake when the Cascadia fault rips. Better to leave now.


4 posted on 05/03/2018 5:57:38 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: John W

Moving their new HQ to North Korea. They have a delivery system available.


5 posted on 05/03/2018 5:58:34 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: John W
A hard leftist who doesn't want to pay leftist taxes.
6 posted on 05/03/2018 6:00:27 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: John W

Will Bozos get a clue about democrats?


7 posted on 05/03/2018 6:01:52 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Has Seattle identified what the tax money will go for ?
Will it attract more street scum to the city ?


8 posted on 05/03/2018 6:03:30 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: John W

But I thought Bezos was a liberal and liberals love:

1) Seattle AND
2) Higher taxes

What’s the problem, Jeff? Pony up those bucks, of which you’ve got plenty.


9 posted on 05/03/2018 6:04:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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The liberal fascist City Government of Seattle did everything they legally could to force hardship on the homeless...fences along freewats, bicycle racks where they sleep at night, the list pf planned purposeful pobstruction of the homeless is endless.

They purposefully created a crisis in their Alinsky liberal fascist , magic negro style , and now use that crisis to take earnings and jobs away from a thriving corporation like Amazon.That’s liberal fascism folks. Can’y blame Amazon for leaving the City and perhaps the whole state. The jobs are going away to where there are no liberal fascists running the local or state government.

We will enjoy watching the City of Seattle’s politicians tank.

You want to know about liberal fascism? This is an excellent read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


10 posted on 05/03/2018 6:07:35 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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“I see you have some money there. Give it to me.”


11 posted on 05/03/2018 6:10:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: BobL
Sounds to me like Amazon HATES the homeless.

You couldn't be more wrong.

The city of Seattle and their incompetent city council has been spending hundreds of millions of $$$ over the past 5+ years 'coddling' the homeless.

There are 400+ homeless camps throughout the city, where the vagrants are shooting-up their drugs, committing crime and crapping and pissing all over the place, and the city of Seattle is looking the other way and not allowing the police to enforce the law.

This has FINALLY got the citizens, (even liberals), up in arms and they don't want anymore $$$ wasted on this failed homeless experiment.

Also, there is major corruption in the city council where the 'homeless industrial complex' they've hired to 'solve' the problem is kicking back major $$$ to the council members.

It's corruption at its worst!

Amazon, and other major players, are saying, 'we give enough already, Stop with the taxes already or we're leaving'!

12 posted on 05/03/2018 6:13:16 PM PDT by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: roadcat

Well I hope this clown Bezos doesnt relocate to a red state and he’s gonna look like a hypocrite billionaire liberal who hates haying taxes. Actually he is..


13 posted on 05/03/2018 6:13:36 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Has Seattle identified what the tax money will go for ?

It goes for buying love and votes for politicians.

14 posted on 05/03/2018 6:20:49 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: PROCON

“You couldn’t be more wrong.”

“Amazon, and other major players, are saying, ‘we give enough already, Stop with the taxes already or we’re leaving’!”

LOL! You miss my point, and my theme, which is that we have to play at THEIR LEVEL. So when Reagan proposes increasing the budget for public housing by 4%, rather than the 7% that activists demand, the Democrats SCREAM that Reagan wants to throw people onto the streets.

Similar here. Of course Amazon’s claim is legit, and of course they are ‘donating’ (whether they like it or not) billions to ‘the poor’, but the MOMENT they (Amazon) push back - we need to NAIL THEM TO THE WALL, just as the Left does to us - after all, they own the Washington Post.


15 posted on 05/03/2018 6:21:31 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: roadcat

For a number of weeks, it’s been hinted that the new HQ’s would go into the DC-region (maybe DC, maybe Arlington). To me, that defied logic.

I would have gone into Nashville or Dallas.

I would suspect that they are adding up the taxation business and realizing Seattle ought to be just a minor hub, and downsize the operation by half. In a way, the city is doing everything possible to chase companies away.


16 posted on 05/03/2018 6:23:49 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: roadcat

But the Amazon CEO is a big liberal. So he ought to love paying more taxes.

These people are such hypocrites. How do they even sleep at night?


17 posted on 05/03/2018 6:25:36 PM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you , Julian!)
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To: BobL

I hear ya Bob, and it is funny that a big leftist corp like Amazon is complaining, but, seriously, the Seattle city council is SO corrupt with their kick-backs from the homeless-industrial complex they fund with $$$millions, (which doesn’t solve ANYTHING), that even liberal Bezos is fed up, LOL!


18 posted on 05/03/2018 6:29:21 PM PDT by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: BobL

heh heh, clearly.

There’s a bit of a war brewing in the city council between the socialists and the batpoop crazy commie (you can google “crazy Seattle city council” and her name is the first hit) Khama Savant. Her ‘supporters’ have started attacking her less commie co-members. Then there’s the case of the Seattle sponsored heroin shooting gallery that the state supreme court has decided to hear. It’s lovely to see the left eat itself.


19 posted on 05/03/2018 6:42:26 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Has Seattle identified what the tax money will go for ?
Will it attract more street scum to the city ?

><

I don’t remember the details, but I heard that a big chunk would go to help the homeless.

You are right on.....it would be a magnet and make matters worse.


20 posted on 05/03/2018 6:49:02 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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