I thought Liberals were the most kind, caring, compassionate and, most importantly, GENEROUS people on the planet. But, I guess they're only generous with other peoples money, especially when it's taken from those people at the point of a gun or IRS audit.
Given what Social Justice Warriors, Bezos and the rest of Amazon are, you'd think they'd be offering the city double what is required. Because if you do the math, $275 per person/year, comes out to around $23/month. That's something like two less micro-brews and two less mocha chai latte cappucino's a month, per person. Surely the Liberal, Hipsters can sacrifice that.
Yeah, not so much, huh? All fun and games when you can talk about it, write about it, and protest about it. Different when you have to reach into your own pocket to help out.
And at the same time, create more homeless.
Sixbucks upset, too. Nobody out-SJW’s Leftist govt. apparatchiks!
Are they going to call it the Affordable Employee Act?
I wouldn’t be surprized if it turns out, that Amazon will leave there.
They just won’t say it publicly, right now.
> Having paused construction planning on an office tower over the larger proposal, Amazon now will move ahead with it... <
Amazon can’t possibly be that stupid. Seattle’s tax is now “only” $275 per employee. But next month or next year, it’ll be back up to $500 per employee, or maybe more.
If every registered democrat took one homeless person into their home, the problem would be solved overnight.
The “liberal hipsters” won’t pay the head tax. Their employers will pay the annual fee of $275 per employee. Already, employers are paying the $15/hr minimum wage. Businesses will not locate in Seattle I guarantee. The word will get out and businesses will black list Seattle.
The funny thing is that the libs don’t realize that’s their raise for next year they just approved.
So with the increased homelessness, due to increased already high taxes, Seattle increases taxes on the working even more.
Cesspool of Left lunacy.
Suckers... it will be a $1000 tax before you know it.
If you do the math on Amazon warehouse scale thats 1500 employees, a third of a million dollars taken from those employees paychecks and their customers. Those employees start at just over 11 bucks an hour. They cannot afford micro brews.
Oh, did you think Bezos was going to pay it?
Amazon is not stupid. I have observed that in communities that try to milk them they will not build any more. In communities that are grateful for the flood of jobs, more and more facilities pop up.
There are many styles of Amazon fulfillment centers. You get one, its a test, you get 4, you passed the test.
Seattle failed, those jobs will go elsewhere. You drop 5000 jobs from 11 - 17 bucks and hour for unskilled labor on a town and you get prosperity.
That’s the way the Left works. They wanted $500 per head but compromised and took a “cut” of $225 per head. They’ll decry it as a loss to “mean” businesses even though this bogus tax passed.
Hmmm! How’d that work out for Philadelphia?
Then fact that this was a 9-0 decision tells us all we need to know. This will not go well for that town.
Amazon needs to move to Tacoma. Or maybe Bellevue or Issaquah.
I wonder if it’s constitutional (state constitution).
I just perused the 700+ comments on the times article. You’d think the people there are all far right conservatives. They are not happy. None of them.
This reminds some of them of the ridiculous and failed soda tax there.