Posted on 05/14/2018 6:24:04 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
Hours after the Seattle City Council passed a head tax on the city’s largest businesses Monday, Amazon issued a statement in response.
The online shopping giant is grateful that the city amended its head tax proposal to a lesser amount, but notes that it is wary of city leaders’ attitudes toward business.
Amazon’s statement is attributed to Vice President Drew Herdener:
"We are disappointed by today’s city council decision to introduce a tax on jobs. While we have resumed construction planning for Block 18, we remain very apprehensive about the future created by the council’s hostile approach and rhetoric toward larger businesses, which forces us to question our growth here. City of Seattle revenues have grown dramatically from $2.8 billion in 2010 to $4.2 billion in 2017, and they will be even higher in 2018. This revenue increase far outpaces the Seattle population increase over the same time period. The city does not have a revenue problem — it has a spending efficiency problem. We are highly uncertain whether the city council’s anti-business positions or its spending inefficiency will change for the better."
As the council was debating the head tax over the past month, Amazon halted construction on its expanding headquarters in South Lake Union.
Move out, amazon! Plenty of right-to-work, low cost of living, nice place to live, populations with a work ethic places in the rest of the country. Get out a map and take a look.
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