[Lurker]

The Left eats their own.

Fun to watch.

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[mewzilla]

Big libs until their ox gets gored. Fine when it’s other people’s money.

Frickin’ hypocrites.

[rjsimmon]

C’mon Amazon and Starbucks, do the manly thing and run away!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Nobody likes paying taxes...especially liberals.

[And2TheRepublic]

Liberals: Loving socialism unless they’re subjected to it.

[KC_Lion]

[Red Badger]

Oh HO!.......The shoe’s on the other side of the fence, now!...............

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Are Amazon and Starbucks really stupid enough to think that this is a one-time issue? Because of liberal benefactors like Amazon and Starbucks, Seattle has a Socialist city council. That is the issue, not the head tax. If the head tax is repealed, the Socialists will come up with something else.

[hoagy62]

Unfortunately, it’s a no-win situation. If the big companies fight this, it makes them appear like they are heartless stingy, greedy jerks who don’t care anything about the homeless.

If they don’t fight it, then they get gored at tax time.

It seems that the only truly sane thing to do is to pay the tax for the time being, and in the meantime, look for another place to have their company headquarters. I would love to see it if Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan, and every other major company that has its headquarters in Seattle with just get up and leave.

If that happens, then maybe councilmember sawant and all her other liberal Council Buddies will finally get a clue. But, considering how stupid liberals really are, I don’t hold out much hope on that.

[lurk]

Collectivists’ new motto: Oppress you, not me.

[GOP Poet]

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[Petrosius]

Anthem of the Left:

Free speech for me, not for thee.
Taxes for thee, not for me.

[vikingd00d]

If they’re going for a ballot referendum.. why not propose a “head tax” on Seattle city council members of $6 million each “intended to combat homelessness”? Turn about is fair play...

[Augie]

Sometimes you get what you deserve.

[Larry Lucido]

Shouldn’t Starbucks be building free heads all over the city?

[Antoninus]

I have absolutely no problem with a tax like this on big corporations with 1000+ employees. Anything that helps favor the small and mid-sized is a boon. The big corps are just enablers for big government anyway.

Where people should be complaining is how Seattle city government manages all that tax money, particularly their homeless policy. That is a disaster that, in a more sane time, would result in a complete turn-over of city government. Sadly, the insane outnumber the sane in most big cities these days.

[jazminerose]

Schadenfreude alert.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Leftist never learn. In Pittsburgh, the city and unions extorted money out of the Steel plants because they thought they had them over the barrel. They’re here and won’t leave so they just have to take it!! Guess what? They left and now the steel business in Southwestern Pa is a fraction of what it once was...

[bramps]

As the adage goes...Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money.

[Tench_Coxe]

This might be the one time I would support the Seattle city council to maintain the tax....