I live outside Seattle and usually work in the city. I do not agree with the head tax but some big companies have created needless congestion in Seattle, most notably Amazon. There is no reason that a company that is not brick and mortar should be sprawling through the city.
There are better areas for Amazon to locate to the south most notably. Amazon employees are very well paid and many live in Seattle. If they were not in the city the rent prices would fall and more of the currently homeless could afford lodging
This solution, of course, would not provide a giant slush fund for the city to skim from as this head tax does.
That may be part of it, but the bigger issue is the city of Seattle rolling out the red carpet for the homeless. Most of them are mentally l, drug addicts, or young anti-social transients that move north and south following good weather like geese. While there may be a few that can’t afford housing due to the cost, that is not the main issue. The city enables these people.
Liberals are so compassionate, with other people’s money.
I think if Amazon had grasped it’s growth and impact....they would have selected some place thirty miles outside of Kansas City or Nashville to begin with.
I think part of this search for the second facility....will end up being an attempt to grow the facility, and take 50-percent of the Seattle ‘core’ out. It wouldn’t surprise me if in ten years...Amazon-Seattle is about 10-percent of it’s current size, and some third Amazon facility is built on the east coast.