I love it when Leftists eat their own.
It’s a joy to watch.
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Watch it! Budding conservatism at Amazon.
Tell them to come to Jacksonville! We love business here.
What does Seattle plan to live on?
Lots of the council members are getting rich off this scheme, as are their homeless-industrial complex accomplices.
It's democrat corruption at the highest levels.
If amazon wants to solve their problem with Seattle, how about they just BUY Seattle outright? Or at least all of downtown.
It has some nice parts, mixed with some real shithole parts, and has a persistent socialist-democrat infestation, but some fumigation and the rules that only a company town can enforce would clean that right up.
The alternative is Seattle can become windowstown, googleville, hipster heights, or socialist slums on the sound.
Lie down with dogs...
Yeah, Bezos and his ilk love to promote rampant liberalism everywhere and then whine when the illogic of liberalism bites them in the butt. I have zero sympathy.
It just amazes me how economically stupid politicians can be. This head tax is similar to the Exit Tax ex-Gov Celeste tried in Ohio. This was during a period when businesses were fleeing the unions in the North for non-union labor markets in the South. Ohio passed an Exit Tax that, in effect, made companies that closed in Ohio leave a tax payment equal to six months’ wages of those who were employed by the exiting company. They sold the idea to the public by saying the money would be used for retraining.
Turns out, retraining was the least of their problems. Ohio quickly noticed that there were no new jobs nor new business formations in Ohio. Imagine that! To their credit, they saw the error of their ways and rescinded the tax. Perhaps Seattle will come to its senses before the same thing happens to them.
Idiots...
The city does not have a revenue problem — it has a spending efficiency problem.
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It has a Democrat problem, the same political affiliation as Bezos.
Here’s betting that the Seattle homeless will be the best dressed and fed before the next round of the tax is passed because of impending budget shortfalls.
Leftists are so “THICK!”
They support an ideology that has cost over 100 million lives, and impacted hundreds of million more.
They ignore the need for a strong military despite the times in history when we have been forced to use our armed forces to protect our interests at home or internationally.
They come up with hair-brained anti-Capitalist legislation even though Communist China adopted a Capitalist economic system and was literally catapulted by it into the 21st Century.
Now this stupid head tax...
Liberals need Conservatives to bail them out again and again.
Then they go back to planning more laws that they will need to be rescued from.
Amazon will undoubtedly come through this thinking it’s worst threat comes from the Right.
Amazon gets mugged...lol...
Amazon should be speaking with its feet, not through its rectum.
TRANSLATION: If we get a better offer, we are outta here!
That’s the problem with liberalism. Eventually, even you become “somebody else’s money”. And then it gets real.
Seattle Iron Workers vs Socialists Trying to Steal from Amazon & Businesses
https://youtu.be/w-QuievfwE0
They’re all for “redistribution” until it’s THEIR stuff being “redistributed.”
Seattle could become like Detroit - a core city hollowed out as businesses depart for the suburbs.