Posted on 05/25/2018 8:03:11 AM PDT by gattaca
SEATTLE – Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan and other companies have pledged a total of more than $350,000 toward an effort to repeal Seattle's newly passed tax on large employers intended to combat homelessness.
Just days after the Seattle City Council approved the levy, the No Tax On Jobs campaign, a coalition of businesses, announced it would gather signatures to
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The Left eats their own.
Fun to watch.
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Big libs until their ox gets gored. Fine when it’s other people’s money.
Frickin’ hypocrites.
C’mon Amazon and Starbucks, do the manly thing and run away!
Nobody likes paying taxes...especially liberals.
Liberals: Loving socialism unless they’re subjected to it.
Hypocrisy is a requirement of liberalism.
Oh HO!.......The shoe’s on the other side of the fence, now!...............
Are Amazon and Starbucks really stupid enough to think that this is a one-time issue? Because of liberal benefactors like Amazon and Starbucks, Seattle has a Socialist city council. That is the issue, not the head tax. If the head tax is repealed, the Socialists will come up with something else.
Unfortunately, it’s a no-win situation. If the big companies fight this, it makes them appear like they are heartless stingy, greedy jerks who don’t care anything about the homeless.
If they don’t fight it, then they get gored at tax time.
It seems that the only truly sane thing to do is to pay the tax for the time being, and in the meantime, look for another place to have their company headquarters. I would love to see it if Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan, and every other major company that has its headquarters in Seattle with just get up and leave.
If that happens, then maybe councilmember sawant and all her other liberal Council Buddies will finally get a clue. But, considering how stupid liberals really are, I don’t hold out much hope on that.
No sympathy from me. Amazon and Starbucks push liberal politics - apparently as long as it isn't their ox being gored.
Collectivists’ new motto: Oppress you, not me.
Same as all of their expenditures, it'll be passed along to their customers. The company won't be out a dime. It's the customer who will be gored.
I thought Starbucks loved the homeless and have opened their stores up to them.
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Anthem of the Left:
Free speech for me, not for thee.
Taxes for thee, not for me.
I think people — even in Seattle — are getting sick of pie-in-the-sky liberal tax schemes. Seattle’s ridiculous minimum wage racket is already killing the restaurant business there; this head tax is just another blow to the city’s economy.
If they’re going for a ballot referendum.. why not propose a “head tax” on Seattle city council members of $6 million each “intended to combat homelessness”? Turn about is fair play...
Sometimes you get what you deserve.
What a bunch of racists.. will they settle for 3/5ths of the tax?
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