Posted on 07/10/2020 7:13:45 AM PDT by rktman
As a member of the Seattle City Council, she's had an outsized influence on the nation, leading the charge for a $15 minimum wage.
Now, with the passage of her so-called "Amazon Tax," the Socialist Alternative party member, Kshama Sawant, is making it clear that her legislative measures are only part of a much larger agenda.
Calling the passage Tuesday of a more than $200 million tax on top of the 3% city tax on corporations "a historic victory for working people," she warned Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos "and his class" that she and her allies are "preparing the ground for a different kind of society."
Sawant declared "we are coming for you and your rotten system."
"We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism, this police state," she said Tuesday in a video message after the City Council vote.
"We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality a socialist world."
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$MS in Redmond (MC 1.61T) may as well be Seattle - the city will follow the Seattle lead.
Amazon (MC $1.59T).
Adobe (MC $221B) is very big and the loss would be a huge tax and wage blow, also all the high-paying jobs loss.
There are still many Boeing (MC $103B) corporate types in Seattle, not to mention high-paying union jobs. Would not be the first time they thought of moving that manufacturing plant elsewhere.
Starbucks (MC $86B) is relatively harmless
How nice it would be if people like this just disappeared after spewing their screeds.
I guess the next election MAY tell...but the bigger problem in Washington is election fraud
WA St is firmly in the Dem camp - fraud will just increase the popular vote for Dems. Election fraud IS a problem in other states especially mail in and vote harvesting.
WND going off the rails again, calling a pipsqueak Seattle council member “an influential lawmaker.”
WND should simply headline each piece “Clickbait - Click Here!!!!!”
And the lead sentence can be: “We need to pay bills, too. Click! Click! Click!”
I’ sure that if we were to factor in all the abortions and the death rate from the French Revolution onward, the death rate would be close to a billion people killed by leftist regimes.
Never accept lectures on morality from a leftist.
Easily I bet...
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