My crystal ball tells me a year from now there will be more homeless.
It’s not taxing the company. It’s taking money from the employees and customers.
Betting Bezos voted for the dems who are doing this.
If you want to truly help the homeless, you offer them a hand up.
If they won’t take it, kick them the hell out of your city limits.
I'm going to work with our city government to fund $20 and a one-way ticket to Seattle. If Seattle wants them, they can have them.
Say Bye!
I was in SF last week and the homeless are very present there. Imagine a city with a median single-family home price of $1.6M, and for those wages, you get to watch folks shidding in the street!
Libs taxing the fecal matter out of libs. What’s not to like?
Now, will the big companies prove the general rule of taxed companies moving to friendlier locales, or will they abide by their utopian principles?
It would serve Seattle right if Amazon fired all but three employees.
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The trouble with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
-Margaret Thatcher--
I’ll bet that Amazon will be leaving Seattle for a new Headquarters in the near future. There will be literally hundreds of cities all across the Fruited Plains willing to give them 10 or more years of tax incentives to relocate.
Most of these people wouldn’t take a job if you offered them $50 an hour do do inventory for a blind liquor store owner.
Amazon and others, Boeing, Microsoft, etc. came to the NW because there is no state corporate or individual income tax. Also there is a fairly stable, educated, very tech savvy work force here that is a result of workers that came for the defense industries of WWII.
The problem they created is the competition for available housing. Look at a map. Most other cities can grow in all directions, with commutable drives from suburbs spreading out in all directions.
The NW is landlocked, its population has no room to economically grow in any direction except to the south towards Portland, which it is doing, but with long commutes.
Supply and demand.... The competition for housing will only get worse and prices will go up. The big employers will continue to build satellite campuses while keeping a HQ presence in Seattle.
That is the future. They won’t leave the NW, but will expand by decentralizing, using the internet.
The homeless are simply people that can’t compete for a livable income, they can leave or compete for charity income.
A head tax is a socialist way of helping minimally productive people stay in the NW.
“Tax the rich, feed the poor, ‘til there are no rich no more” Ten Years After/Alvin Lee/1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBAwv49slC8
Oh, OK. When I read a similar article yesterday I thought Seattle wanted to tax the actual EMPLOYEES. I though THAT took guts. But no, they want to tax the company - for hiring people. Dumb. Then again, kind of like Starbucks and Amazon getting it in the teeth.
Just reported. Amazon has put on hold it’s plan to build a large downtown commercial project. This $275 per head tax is going to get a lot more people in the homeless ranks.
Thank you liberal Seattle.