And good luck Jeff trying to unload that turkey on some other sucker.
Liberals love theft, until it happens to them.
Old news. Seattle passed the tax, though smaller than proposed. Amazon now moving ahead with construction plans, regardless.
This article is from 2 weeks ago. Whole thing resolved since then.
Tax reduced to $250.00, approved by council, and Amazon has restarted project construction.
Of course I’m very sure that the city pored through the budget and spending data to make sure they eliminated all waste and fraud before they had to resort to levying this new tax, right? That’s how all governments work, yes?
Anyone have a bridge or two to sell me?
Regardless of whether you like Amazon or not, these stupid leftist policies are going to cost the residents of their cities a lot in lost jobs and opportunities. Apple was going to build a billion-dollar facility in some god-forsaken county in Ireland, to the great joy of the local residents who hoped to work there, and a pair of self-proclaimed “environmental preservationists” kept the project in court for so many years that last week Apple just gave up and withdrew its plans. I guess what they want to preserve is rural Ireland’s poverty...
this is very old news: council already voted to do the head tax, and amazon basically said they were resuming construction ...
this is very old news: council already voted to do the head tax, and amazon basically said they were resuming construction ...
Today, $275 per head; in a few years, $1000 or $2000.
This is the sort of thing which drives employers like Boeing and Microsoft to spread their operational base. And, Seattle is doing this while Amazon is in the midst of a highly publicized search for a second headquarters location. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
He picked a Blue State because of the very high taxes ,right LOL
How many more cities will Leftists have to ruin before they learn their lesson?
A. 5
B. 15
C. All of them.
D. This is a trick question. They’ll never learn.
--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part III ("A is A"), Chapter V ("Their Brothers' Keepers"), page 925
A few years ago he fought a state income tax on high owners.
It really is a joy watching liberals eating each other.
The road to serfdom ends in Seattle.
Why would Jeff Bezos want to live as a vassal servant to the greedy, tax-raising lords of the manor in Seattle when he could relocate Amazon to any other city and receive enormous tax breaks?
The power to tax is the power to destroy. But we know Jeff Bezos doesn’t understand that or he’d be a conservative.
Told my husband last night, never again am I going to set foot in that city. The homeless are taking over and that idiot Sawant on the city council should be thrown out of the country. We went to see Gillian Welch at the Pantages last October (one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to) and the prices for dinner were outrageous, bums everywhere, etc. I felt very nervous without my gun. Don’t care if my favorite artists put on a free show. Ain’t happening. Screw Seattle. Plenty of other very enjoyable areas/venues around the sound.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
Communists, fascists, and socialists all fighting over who gets to ride in the back of the shiny black limousines.
Such is life in the people’s democratic republic of seattle.
Seattle Lefties have not learned the lesson of “Do not bite the hand that feeds you.”