Seattle’s socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant wants to make an example out of Amazon

Geek Wire ^ | November 20, 2019 | MONICA NICKELSBURG

[Tax-chick]

Brilliant.

[NurdlyPeon]

Sawant is open to a head tax ballot initiative but she doesn’t think “it should be punted to the voters.”

'Punted to the voters'??? Oh I just love that one.

[ronnie raygun]

What happened when you leave the cover to the cesspool off

[qwerty1234]

please, please, please amazon - pack up all your sh*t and move out of seattle to a business friendly location....then see what happens.

[American in Israel]

A inovative multi Billion dollar business being legislated to death by socialists, what could go wrong?

Socialist who never create anything but poverty and oppression...

[Boomer]

Seattle socialist. Those two words are all anyone needs to know about this person. It just goes downhill from that low point.

[exPBRrat]

This is the Government you get when the parasites outnumber the taxpayers.

[KarlInOhio]

She needs a couple Che posters on that bulletin board.

[PubliusMM]

The Libturd sleight-of-hand...tax big business...

They know the truth, but they push the lie. And, in many instances, a gullible electorate buys that lie, sadly.

Simple fact is that big business (and small) DO NOT PAY TAXES. They build their tax burden into pricing and THE BUYER pays the taxes, ALWAYS.

And, THAT is why the Fair Tax makes the most sense as a mechanism to fund government. With this caveat: Tax Reform without Spending Reform is a Fool’s Game, ALWAYS.

[cuban leaf]

We have space for amazon here in Kentucky. Much lower taxes as well.

[marktwain]

It is good that Bezos is being hit up like this.

It may have him rethink some policies...

[marktwain]

They know the truth, but they push the lie. And, in many instances, a gullible electorate buys that lie, sadly.

Leftists are particularly good at lying to themselves.

[Pollard]

Sawant was born to Vasundhara and H. T. Ramanujam in Pune, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra, but grew up in Mumbai.[6] Her mother is a retired principal and her father, who was a civil engineer, was killed by a drunk driver when Sawant was 13.[7] Sawant's observations of poverty in her native country and her unhappiness with the Indian caste system helped shape her political views before her adoption of socialism. Sawant grew up in Mumbai where she later studied computer science and graduated with a BSc from the University of Mumbai in 1994.[citation needed]

After moving to the United States, she was shocked by the level of poverty and decided to abandon software engineering.[8] She pursued studies in economics because of what she described as her own "questions of economic inequality".[9] She entered the economics program at North Carolina State University where she earned a PhD. Her dissertation was titled Elderly Labor Supply in a Rural, Less Developed Economy.[2][10] Sawant moved to Seattle in 2006 and became a Socialist Alternative party member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant

Got a lengthy wikipedia page for basically a nobody. Wiki like socialists

[bert]

A money broom can not clean out Ameritrash

[kearnyirish2]

How about “foreign socialist”? Certainly explains it well.

[I want the USA back]

The article assumes everyone knows what the hell the “head tax” is. I don’t.

This from Wiki: “Mayor Greg Nickels proposed an employee hours tax, dubbed a “head tax” by the local media, of $25 per employee in 2006”

A stupid, unconstitutional idea. Par for the course from ultra liberal Seattle.

[kearnyirish2]

Yeah, NYC really taught Amazon a lesson!

Take your stinking jobs elsewhere - we need businesses that will pay for everything in the neighborhoods, not provide jobs!

[Russ]

I would love to take that smug, know-it-all look off her face.

[Starcitizen]

Most filthy Indians want to bring their socialism here. Send this trash home, along with the hundreds of thousands of H1Bs and H4EADs in the Seattle-area alone.