I like it when the liberals do something that gets the unions that support them to protest against them...
Liberal self-destruction is a wonderful thing.
Now if only they’d stop trying to force it onto the rest of us.
I am with Amazon on this.
I guess I am hoping for lefties to see the light on crap like this.
Greedy, commie bastards. That’s what they do. Destroy you.
This was already resolved. The tax was passed and Amazon resumed building.
Seattle’s building code is 745 pages long.
“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?
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.
“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.
Amazon, being the “woke” company that it is, should have upped their contribution to $10,000 per employee, and done so enthusiastically. What gives?
Directive 10-289.
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.
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!
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.
Trump’s grandfather Friedrich did very well as a small busibessman in early Seattle.
I wonder if bozo Bezos will get a clue as to what scum democrats are.
“Housing is a human right!”
Only if slavery is.
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.
BTTT
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.