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Amazon, once again, considers moving employees out of Seattle
Biz Journals ^ | 8/14/20 | Tony Lystra

Posted on 08/14/2020 4:39:42 PM PDT by Libloather

Amazon is gauging how employees feel about moving away from the company's Seattle campus, largely because of the Covid-19 pandemic and Seattle’s new payroll tax.

Amazon sent an email to workers asking if they’d be willing to work in Seattle’s suburbs and outlying areas, including Redmond and Tacoma. The story was reported by Bloomberg on Friday.

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Amazon employs about 50,000 workers at its Seattle headquarters, which includes more than 40 buildings - including the company’s landmark, greenhouse-like glass Spheres - sprawling across several blocks.

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Amazon has had a rocky relationship with the Seattle City Council since at least 2018 when councilwoman Kshama Sawant proposed a “head tax” on large salaries in the city to pay for homelessness and affordable housing. Sawant called it the “Amazon Tax.”

Later that year, the council initially passed a tax of $275 per employee on Seattle businesses pulling in more than $20 million a year. Amazon halted construction on one of its downtown Seattle towers as debate over that tax intensified, and a backlash against the levy quickly gained strength. The council ultimately backpedaled and voted to repeal the tax in June 2018, less than a month after it was passed.

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Sawant revived her “Tax Amazon” campaign earlier this year and proposals to tax the payrolls of large companies to pay for affordable and green housing were floated in both the city council and in Olympia.

Last month, the Seattle City Council approved a new tax on the city’s largest employers, levying the payrolls of employees making at least $150,000 a year. It’s estimated the tax will raise more than $200 (million) each year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazontax; districtofcolumbia; durkan; jeffbezos; kshamasawant; oregon; portland; redmond; sawant; seattle; tacoma; tonylystra; washington; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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The socialist Sawant is killin' it.
1 posted on 08/14/2020 4:39:42 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I am not a fan of Bezos, nor am I an Amazon customer,,,

However as a lifelong bookkeeper/accounting person I would have advised him long before new & the moving trucks would hve been there more than a month ago.


2 posted on 08/14/2020 4:45:55 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Libloather

Total NIMBY move.


3 posted on 08/14/2020 4:46:07 PM PDT by Intar
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To: Libloather

I am not a fan of Bezos, nor am I an Amazon customer,,,

However as a lifelong bookkeeper/accounting person I would have advised him long before now & the moving trucks would have been there more than a month ago.


4 posted on 08/14/2020 4:46:10 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

As business savvy as Bezos may be, he’s also an acolyte of the radicalism that now threatens his business. He had the wealth and power to stop it, and instead he cast his lot in with them. For him, it’s easy: Move out. For everyone else the decision isn’t so easy. That’s really the problem with men like him: They destroy the political landscape with their failed political and social ideologies and make it impossible for anyone else to thrive, then when things get too difficult, simply move away to spread the same toxic ideology somewhere else.


5 posted on 08/14/2020 4:54:11 PM PDT by Intar
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To: Libloather

The decision has already been made and Covid19 has nothing to do with it. The dissolution of law and order along with the business tax made that a programmed decision.

We will now see how quickly Seattle devolves into Detroit


6 posted on 08/14/2020 4:55:26 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: Libloather

https://thewashingtonsentinel.com/watch-seattle-blm-demand-peoples-money-and-their-homes-all-in-the-name-of-reparations/

Black Lives Matter in Seattle is now demanding that homeowners willingly give up their property to Black people as a form of reparations because they’re “coming for it” one way or the other.
Protesters called out Amazon employees for gentrification of “their” neighborhood


7 posted on 08/14/2020 4:55:53 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Libloather

Bad idea. Amazon employee Are mostly liberals. They would turn suburb liberal


8 posted on 08/14/2020 4:56:11 PM PDT by Lee25
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To: Libloather

Don’t move these liberals to Tennessee.


9 posted on 08/14/2020 4:58:14 PM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Lee25

Seattle suburbs were already liberal in the first place.


10 posted on 08/14/2020 4:59:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Libloather

> Seattle’s new payroll tax.

What’s the problem? Doesn’t he want to pay higher taxes like a good liberal?


11 posted on 08/14/2020 5:02:33 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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"What’s the problem? Doesn’t he want to pay higher taxes like a good liberal?"

Robert Conquest's first law of politics:

"Everyone is conservative about what he knows best."
12 posted on 08/14/2020 5:06:23 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: Intar

Folks like him bring to my mind the Globe scene in the Great Dictator, where the powerful little man carelessly toys with a globe of the world, until he eventually destroys it. Oops. Oh well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOuoyoMhj8


13 posted on 08/14/2020 5:09:57 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Libloather

They support it they should live with it


14 posted on 08/14/2020 5:13:23 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: Libloather

The avowed socialist is not really any further left than the rest of the city council in Seattle.

They are determined to wreck themselves.


15 posted on 08/14/2020 5:17:03 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Libloather

I was wondering when Bezos would finally get a clue and get out of there. Hope he is not thinking of moving back to New York. That would be like fleeing Hiroshima for Nagasaki. Same mushroom cloud, different city.


16 posted on 08/14/2020 5:18:32 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Libloather

When it’s time to move, move - don’t talk.


17 posted on 08/14/2020 5:19:14 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: griswold3
"Black Lives Matter in Seattle is now demanding that homeowners willingly give up their property to Black people as a form of reparations because they’re “coming for it” one way or the other."

It Begins: Black Lives Matter Mob Demands White People Move Out of Homes and Leave Them for Black People (VIDEO)

This won't end well.

18 posted on 08/14/2020 5:23:54 PM PDT by blam
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To: Libloather

Bezos is a businessman and Seattle is hostile to businesses. The writing is on the wall. People and businesses are going to flee the city and Seattle is going to come after Amazon to make up the deficit.


19 posted on 08/14/2020 5:32:44 PM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: Libloather

“Kshama Sawant”

Sounds like something you have to take heavy doses of penicillin for.


20 posted on 08/14/2020 5:35:14 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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