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Amazon Fights Back
Townhall.com ^ | May 16, 2018 | John Stossel

Posted on 05/16/2018 7:10:26 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/16/2018 7:10:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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I like it when the liberals do something that gets the unions that support them to protest against them...


2 posted on 05/16/2018 7:12:01 AM PDT by seamusnh
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Liberal self-destruction is a wonderful thing.

Now if only they’d stop trying to force it onto the rest of us.


3 posted on 05/16/2018 7:14:22 AM PDT by Luircin
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I am with Amazon on this.
I guess I am hoping for lefties to see the light on crap like this.


4 posted on 05/16/2018 7:14:23 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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Greedy, commie bastards. That’s what they do. Destroy you.


5 posted on 05/16/2018 7:17:30 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Kaslin

This was already resolved. The tax was passed and Amazon resumed building.


6 posted on 05/16/2018 7:19:40 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
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Seattle’s building code is 745 pages long.


7 posted on 05/16/2018 7:25:48 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: seamusnh

Makes me happy!


8 posted on 05/16/2018 7:25:53 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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“On the other side are city council members like Kshama Sawant. She and members of her political party, Socialist Alternative, demonstrated in support of the tax. They chanted, “Housing is a human right!””

Another Indian “immigrant!” When will we ever learn?


9 posted on 05/16/2018 7:25:59 AM PDT by vette6387
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The government will eventually get to the point of making leaving a state illegal, for both companies and individuals. Not directly, of course. But they will do something shifty like impose a "wealth transfer tax" on property sales or something that will be so high that the price will have to drop to the floor to leave room for the tax and still be affordable to some buyer. So stay and pay your takes like a good peasant or leave and we will take everything you have on the way out.

It's only a matter of time, they will never look in a mirror and say "what did we do to make everyone want to leave?" Nope, force them to stay will be how they "solve" the problem.

10 posted on 05/16/2018 7:26:01 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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“Finally, if a landlord decides to take a building off the market, he must pay each of his tenants $3,000 in relocation costs.”

Just like San Francisco, but it’s a cheap way out of their confiscatory “rent control law.”But in SF, if you elect to take your property off the market, in addition to the “moving costs,” you have to agree to not re-rent it for ten years.


11 posted on 05/16/2018 7:28:59 AM PDT by vette6387
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Amazon, being the “woke” company that it is, should have upped their contribution to $10,000 per employee, and done so enthusiastically. What gives?


12 posted on 05/16/2018 7:30:28 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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What’s even worse is when they enact thse policies upon the rest of us, but exclude themselves (like illegal aliens living 20 to a house in communities where the older inhabitants worked hard and paid to live in a nice neighborhood, or see their jobs undercut by illegals-and it’s never the leftist media and such who lose thereby-or shove government housing for criminal ne’er-do-wells into formerly nice neighborhoods, while the ones who decreed these policies live gated communities, or huge spreads with stout walls, etc). They’re always “compassionate” at the expense of the middle class.


13 posted on 05/16/2018 7:33:28 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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You can't just keep squeezing businesses or other taxpayers forever and not expect them to try to escape. At some point, businesses will pack up and leave. Then there will be fewer paying jobs that make a city's population less likely to be homeless in the first place.

Directive 10-289.

14 posted on 05/16/2018 7:40:18 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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Fixed capital investment in any area run by socialists is absolutely nuts. They will milk it, then steal what remains. The political climate and economy will not get better.


15 posted on 05/16/2018 7:41:29 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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I like leftist feeding frenzies where they rip and slash each other to shreds.


16 posted on 05/16/2018 7:45:39 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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Seattle’s building code is 745 pages long.

In 1955 my Dad, his Dad with some part time help from a brother built the home I grew up in. (Pennsylvania) 2 bedroom 1 bath, kitchen dining room and living room, open front porch @ 8,000 dollars. House is still standing and lived in today. This was of course in the days before Nanny Government!


17 posted on 05/16/2018 7:50:15 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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Jeff Bozo, the Amazon CEO is a hypocrite. Bozo is progressive and anti Trump. Bozo should be thrilled at the opportunity to participate in leftist policies.


18 posted on 05/16/2018 7:54:40 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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Trump’s grandfather Friedrich did very well as a small busibessman in early Seattle.


19 posted on 05/16/2018 8:08:24 AM PDT by scottinoc
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I wonder if bozo Bezos will get a clue as to what scum democrats are.


20 posted on 05/16/2018 8:15:15 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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