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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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To: Kaslin

“Housing is a human right!”


Only if slavery is.


21 posted on 05/16/2018 8:17:23 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Kaslin

McKinsey.

That they exists makes every single living prostitute at any market level in that industry worthy of the Better Business Bureau.

McKinsey comes in, you pay them, and they basically ask you, “OK, what is it you want to say?”

Then they find the people to back your play, and they launch a campaign to promote whatever it is your selling.

At least the big four accounting firms provide accounting services, if very little else.

McKinsey. You lift that rock, and woe betide you.


22 posted on 05/16/2018 8:20:06 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Kaslin

BTTT


23 posted on 05/16/2018 8:24:51 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Kaslin

Story is outdated.

Seattle reduced the size of the tax, and Amazon restarted construction.

They only put it in halfway, and Amazon caved.
The Socialists pretty much called their bluff.


24 posted on 05/16/2018 9:45:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: vette6387

To ‘Idiot’ Sawant: Kshama @ss!


25 posted on 05/16/2018 10:02:15 AM PDT by mikrofon (Humpday BUMPty)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Another article I read said that although Amazon has resumed building, it doesn’t mean they’ll occupy the space. They might decide to rent it out to others. Amazon is still unhappy.


26 posted on 05/16/2018 10:35:08 AM PDT by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: Ciexyz

I suppose we shall see. Would be interesting to see whether Jeff Bezos could withstand the withering “Amazon Hates Homeless People” propaganda.

I always suspected this HQ2 dog-and-pony show was really about firing a shot across Seattle’s bow rather than actually opening a second HQ.


27 posted on 05/16/2018 11:01:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: waterhill

The proposed head tax makes little sense, and may drive companies out. But, it is interesting that progressives, like Bezos and Shultz, suddenly are unhappy with the core tenet of socialism - spend other people’s money to pay for those who won’t contribute to the community.


28 posted on 05/16/2018 11:14:20 AM PDT by JGPhila
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To: Kaslin

As I’ve always said for years “liberals just see people as an infinite taxable resource to be exploited”


29 posted on 05/18/2018 1:43:15 AM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: JGPhila

It should be blatantly obvious to every single employee in a large corporation in Seattle; there’s $500 ($250) that you will never get paid.


30 posted on 05/18/2018 2:19:49 AM PDT by Woodman
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