Amazon threatens to move jobs out of Seattle over new tax

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I would so love to see Amazon thumb their nose at Seattle and do this !


Warning issued after council votes for corporate wealth tax to help tackle city’s housing crisis

Amazon has threatened to move jobs out of its hometown of Seattle after the city council introduced a new tax to try to address the homelessness crisis.

The world’s second-biggest company has warned that the “hostile” tax, which will charge firms $275 per worker a year to fund homelessness outreach services and affordable housing, “forces us to question our growth here”.

Amazon, which is Seattle’s biggest private sector employer with more than 40,000 staff in the city, had halted construction work on a 17-storey office tower in protest against the tax.

Pressure from Amazon and other big employers, including Starbucks and Expedia, had forced councillors to reduce the tax from an initial proposal of $500 per worker. The tax will only effect companies making revenue of more than $20m-a-year

Amazon recently got billions of dollars in tax breaks courtesy of the last tax bill. The homeless are saying 'hey brother, can you spare me a dime, and this guy bezos, with newfound taxpayer money running out of his bodily orifices, threatens to take his ball and go play elsewhere. Typical.

Exactly. For them it's about socialist guarantees for themselves, while getting the public to pay for it. If business was truly operating under laissez faire rules, I would be agreeing with a lot of these 'libertarian' Commies, but no, they think class warfare is the ideal way to go, then whine and snivel about the results when it hey, it turns those evul lazy proles have more votes than they do, and they have not a thing to lose by what they vote for. They're just butt stupid hypocrites, letting a lot of these very rich clowns live off the tax payers, with little risk to themselves. We would have a much larger middle class if these guys weren't subsidized no end. It would certainly be lot more fluid.

 

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I would so love to see Amazon thumb their nose at Seattle and do this !


Warning issued after council votes for corporate wealth tax to help tackle city’s housing crisis

Amazon has threatened to move jobs out of its hometown of Seattle after the city council introduced a new tax to try to address the homelessness crisis.

The world’s second-biggest company has warned that the “hostile” tax, which will charge firms $275 per worker a year to fund homelessness outreach services and affordable housing, “forces us to question our growth here”.

Amazon, which is Seattle’s biggest private sector employer with more than 40,000 staff in the city, had halted construction work on a 17-storey office tower in protest against the tax.

Pressure from Amazon and other big employers, including Starbucks and Expedia, had forced councillors to reduce the tax from an initial proposal of $500 per worker. The tax will only effect companies making revenue of more than $20m-a-year

Amazon recently got billions of dollars in tax breaks courtesy of the last tax bill. The homeless are saying 'hey brother, can you spare me a dime, and this guy bezos, with newfound taxpayer money running out of his bodily orifices, threatens to take his ball and go play elsewhere. Typical.

Why would they spare a dime? You not working, is not somehow an obligation on my part, to spare you a dime.

Amazon provides thousands on thousands of jobs. Instead of sitting on their butts, asking if you can spare dime, about about they apply and work one of the thousands of jobs Amazon is providing?

And what is this "new found tax money".

I earn a pay check. You TAKE money from my check. It's not "new found". It's MY FREAKIN MONEY.

Similarly, Amazon is who earn billions of dollars by providing a service and product people want. It's not "new found money", it's hard earned money, that you are trying to TAKE from Amazon, and then complaining about it if they don't.

By the way, don't sit there and pretend that somehow the government is worse off.

If Amazon leaves, Seattle will lose millions of dollars in tax revenue from all the employees that will no longer be earning a wage.

I'm guessing they also lose on stuff those employees will no longer have an income to buy, thus harming the economy.

If you think that Amazon pays zero tax on anything, and is somehow a magical drain on the local government, you are beyond crazy, and utterly economically illiterate.

This is how Venezuela became Venezuela.

Actaully Venezuela became 'Venezuela' because morons were too stupid to keep corruption at a minimum. But you 'libertarians' think it's the bestest thing ever.

 

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Actually it is. What's the advantage to anybody else when some scumbags pay far less than the cost of living? It only prolongs the crash, and requires subsidies for the business itself.

Yep, not having a job and living off of breadcrumbs as handouts from the elite is so much better

What Amazon pays is bread crumbs. A distinction without a difference. Wages are just supposed to be voluntary handouts, according to right wing ideology. Bosses are only supposed to pay what they feel like paying, right?

I agree. It's much better for Amazon's employees to be unemployed parasites leaching off of the labors of others than having a job.

Yes, Wall Street and right wingers do indeed provide the best examples of that being the road to the highest rewards in our economy, true enough. No reason for the unwashed proles not to follow their successful model of acceptable economic policies, is there?

You don’t have to convince me. I completely agree that it’s far better for them to live off of the welfare state than have a job and be independent. Banana republics are models of order and efficiency. Let them eat cake.

So you agree using the right wing ideology is a great model for everybody to aspire to, then. We already knew that. You also think we should legalize slavery again, too? I mean, if you let oligarchs and monopolies buy whatever then want from govt., then there will soon be plenty of people desperate enough to sell themselves willingly, so why not?

 

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Taxes go directly into career politicians pockets...

 

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Lefty liberals seem to always bite the hand that feeds them.

They just can't help it. ..... ....

Really, the Southern Jobs have come about due to subsidies that liberals taxes fund. Keep laughing because we know you love that kind of socialism!

But, Amazon is not leaving Seattle.

Yep. Plus, the high cost of living in Seattle means fewer and fewer workers can afford to live there and work for sweatshop wages, which means they have to move somewhere else, where the labor pool is larger, and ask for subsidies to boot. The entire West Coast is experiencing that effect, having to subsidize criminal illegal immigration as a substitute. That's the Left's job, carrying water for criminal illegal aliens and keeping the cheap labor flowing in. Of course they don't tell their puppets that's what going on; they like to be told all all about how they're 'Killing Whitey N Stuff', as if that's who takes such crap jobs. lol they're useful idiots.

Every liberal elitist stronghold around this country become too expensive to live in. The people who liberals claim they want to help, are the first ones chased away because they cannot afford to stay.

Really? Wages falling far behind inflation for decades has nothing to do with it, then? Fascinating. Wonder why Milton Freidman and others never noticed that ... oh, wait , they did .... they were just ignored, is all. 25 cents an hour is plenty for anybody, even after the all the fines and fees for stuff like rent for their barracks bunks, using the toilet, or passing out from malnutrition, getting a drink of water, all that stuff businessmen like to dock their workers pay for.

News flash : the world caught up to us finnaly after WWII and you fuckers want to bitch about trumps tariffs?

Need help inventing some more strawmen there? You think using tariffs as a negotiating tactic is wrong, do you? Go some real news for you, moron, all those other countries have them, and us unilaterlly not having them is just utter stupidity, but then you fuckers seem to be very confused by simple math.

 

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Taxes go directly into career politicians pockets...

They go directly to benefit those at the top, mostly.

 

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It's funny there are still tards who don't realize many of those 'welfare bums' are Amazon employees. lol lol lol

 

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Yep, not having a job and living off of breadcrumbs as handouts from the elite is so much better

What Amazon pays is bread crumbs. A distinction without a difference. Wages are just supposed to be voluntary handouts, according to right wing ideology. Bosses are only supposed to pay what they feel like paying, right?

I agree. It's much better for Amazon's employees to be unemployed parasites leaching off of the labors of others than having a job.

Yes, Wall Street and right wingers do indeed provide the best examples of that being the road to the highest rewards in our economy, true enough. No reason for the unwashed proles not to follow their successful model of acceptable economic policies, is there?

You don’t have to convince me. I completely agree that it’s far better for them to live off of the welfare state than have a job and be independent. Banana republics are models of order and efficiency. Let them eat cake.

So you agree using the right wing ideology is a great model for everybody to aspire to, then. We already knew that. You also think we should legalize slavery again, too? I mean, if you let oligarchs and monopolies buy whatever then want from govt., then there will soon be plenty of people desperate enough to sell themselves willingly, so why not?

 

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I would so love to see Amazon thumb their nose at Seattle and do this !


Warning issued after council votes for corporate wealth tax to help tackle city’s housing crisis

Amazon has threatened to move jobs out of its hometown of Seattle after the city council introduced a new tax to try to address the homelessness crisis.

The world’s second-biggest company has warned that the “hostile” tax, which will charge firms $275 per worker a year to fund homelessness outreach services and affordable housing, “forces us to question our growth here”.

Amazon, which is Seattle’s biggest private sector employer with more than 40,000 staff in the city, had halted construction work on a 17-storey office tower in protest against the tax.

Pressure from Amazon and other big employers, including Starbucks and Expedia, had forced councillors to reduce the tax from an initial proposal of $500 per worker. The tax will only effect companies making revenue of more than $20m-a-year

Amazon recently got billions of dollars in tax breaks courtesy of the last tax bill. The homeless are saying 'hey brother, can you spare me a dime, and this guy bezos, with newfound taxpayer money running out of his bodily orifices, threatens to take his ball and go play elsewhere. Typical.

Exactly. For them it's about socialist guarantees for themselves, while getting the public to pay for it. If business was truly operating under laissez faire rules, I would be agreeing with a lot of these 'libertarian' Commies, but no, they think class warfare is the ideal way to go, then whine and snivel about the results when it hey, it turns those evul lazy proles have more votes than they do, and they have not a thing to lose by what they vote for. They're just butt stupid hypocrites, letting a lot of these very rich clowns live off the tax payers, with little risk to themselves. We would have a much larger middle class if these guys weren't subsidized no end. It would certainly be lot more fluid.

Let me ask you something.

Did you use a tax deduction on your tax return? I think we both know that you did.

If I accuse you of "getting the public to pay" for everything you have, is that a justified claim?

What's the difference with Amazon?

Amazon isn't getting money from the government. They got the equivalent to a tax deduction. They were allowed to keep more of the money, they themselves earned.

Just like a tax deduction allows you to keep more of the money you earned.

The difference between you and Amazon, and a welfare recipient, is that money is actually taken from other people who earned it, and given to people who have not earned it with welfare. That's morally wrong.

You being allowed to keep the money you earned, is not morally wrong.

Amazon being allowed to keep the money it earned, is not morally wrong.

Allowing people to keep their rightfully earned money, is liassez faire rules. Welfare is not.

 

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I would so love to see Amazon thumb their nose at Seattle and do this !


Warning issued after council votes for corporate wealth tax to help tackle city’s housing crisis

Amazon has threatened to move jobs out of its hometown of Seattle after the city council introduced a new tax to try to address the homelessness crisis.

The world’s second-biggest company has warned that the “hostile” tax, which will charge firms $275 per worker a year to fund homelessness outreach services and affordable housing, “forces us to question our growth here”.

Amazon, which is Seattle’s biggest private sector employer with more than 40,000 staff in the city, had halted construction work on a 17-storey office tower in protest against the tax.

Pressure from Amazon and other big employers, including Starbucks and Expedia, had forced councillors to reduce the tax from an initial proposal of $500 per worker. The tax will only effect companies making revenue of more than $20m-a-year

Amazon recently got billions of dollars in tax breaks courtesy of the last tax bill. The homeless are saying 'hey brother, can you spare me a dime, and this guy bezos, with newfound taxpayer money running out of his bodily orifices, threatens to take his ball and go play elsewhere. Typical.

Why would they spare a dime? You not working, is not somehow an obligation on my part, to spare you a dime.

Amazon provides thousands on thousands of jobs. Instead of sitting on their butts, asking if you can spare dime, about about they apply and work one of the thousands of jobs Amazon is providing?

And what is this "new found tax money".

I earn a pay check. You TAKE money from my check. It's not "new found". It's MY FREAKIN MONEY.

Similarly, Amazon is who earn billions of dollars by providing a service and product people want. It's not "new found money", it's hard earned money, that you are trying to TAKE from Amazon, and then complaining about it if they don't.

By the way, don't sit there and pretend that somehow the government is worse off.

If Amazon leaves, Seattle will lose millions of dollars in tax revenue from all the employees that will no longer be earning a wage.

I'm guessing they also lose on stuff those employees will no longer have an income to buy, thus harming the economy.

If you think that Amazon pays zero tax on anything, and is somehow a magical drain on the local government, you are beyond crazy, and utterly economically illiterate.

This is how Venezuela became Venezuela.

Actaully Venezuela became 'Venezuela' because morons were too stupid to keep corruption at a minimum. But you 'libertarians' think it's the bestest thing ever.

Really. So in your world, you look at a situation where rice farmers were saying that due to government taxes, regulations, and controls on the market, that they were losing money on every single bag of rice they sold, and thus stopped producing rice............

Was not really about bad policy, socialist control, and destroying the market with regulation..... no no.... in your world it was just a problem of corruption?

That's your argument? I just want to clarify.

 

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I would so love to see Amazon thumb their nose at Seattle and do this !


Warning issued after council votes for corporate wealth tax to help tackle city’s housing crisis

Amazon has threatened to move jobs out of its hometown of Seattle after the city council introduced a new tax to try to address the homelessness crisis.

The world’s second-biggest company has warned that the “hostile” tax, which will charge firms $275 per worker a year to fund homelessness outreach services and affordable housing, “forces us to question our growth here”.

Amazon, which is Seattle’s biggest private sector employer with more than 40,000 staff in the city, had halted construction work on a 17-storey office tower in protest against the tax.

Pressure from Amazon and other big employers, including Starbucks and Expedia, had forced councillors to reduce the tax from an initial proposal of $500 per worker. The tax will only effect companies making revenue of more than $20m-a-year

Amazon recently got billions of dollars in tax breaks courtesy of the last tax bill. The homeless are saying 'hey brother, can you spare me a dime, and this guy bezos, with newfound taxpayer money running out of his bodily orifices, threatens to take his ball and go play elsewhere. Typical.

Exactly. For them it's about socialist guarantees for themselves, while getting the public to pay for it. If business was truly operating under laissez faire rules, I would be agreeing with a lot of these 'libertarian' Commies, but no, they think class warfare is the ideal way to go, then whine and snivel about the results when it hey, it turns those evul lazy proles have more votes than they do, and they have not a thing to lose by what they vote for. They're just butt stupid hypocrites, letting a lot of these very rich clowns live off the tax payers, with little risk to themselves. We would have a much larger middle class if these guys weren't subsidized no end. It would certainly be lot more fluid.

Let me ask you something.

Did you use a tax deduction on your tax return? I think we both know that you did.

If I accuse you of "getting the public to pay" for everything you have, is that a justified claim?

What's the difference with Amazon?

Amazon isn't getting money from the government. They got the equivalent to a tax deduction. They were allowed to keep more of the money, they themselves earned.

Just like a tax deduction allows you to keep more of the money you earned.

The difference between you and Amazon, and a welfare recipient, is that money is actually taken from other people who earned it, and given to people who have not earned it with welfare. That's morally wrong.

You being allowed to keep the money you earned, is not morally wrong.

Amazon being allowed to keep the money it earned, is not morally wrong.

Allowing people to keep their rightfully earned money, is liassez faire rules. Welfare is not.

Stupid post. I guess hoping to waste my time answering a load of BS strawmen is all you can respond with. We can safely say you have no legitimate rebuttals to anything said earlier. Now you're claiming Amazon is 'only getting tax deductions'? lol lol lol like I've noted before, most of the right wingers here have never filled out a tax return. Apparently, Amazon isn't supposed to pay for roads, infrastucture, sewer and water, medical services, police services, all the stuff that makes the First World the First World in the first place, cuz, like, they don't feel like it, and, cuz 'libertarianism n stuff', and, cuz, laissez faire'.

Here's a solution, just set up toll booths, cut off the right of ways utilities use, charge them a monthly fee for military defense costs, charge them separately for the ports they use to import all the crap they sell, charge them separately for literally everything they and their employees use, and then get back to us on what they find to be the cheapest and best deal for them, 'govt' or complete independence and 'freedum' n stuff'. Those 'deductions' are real money, and they go out in bonuses and other stuff for those at the top, you know, the ones you think shouldn't have to pay for anything, and think the only reason we have an army is to shoot down uppity proles n stuff.

You think we have courts, cops, laws against shoplifting, fraud, all that stuff, because we care about working people? lol that' just silly; they exist to protect the interests of the middle and upper classes, period. All those 'regulation' you whine about come about view businesses lobbying for them, seeking protections from other businessmen and their practices, and of course those who offer the largest bribes win the contest. Most all of they seek protection from competition, and protection for their private wealth when their businesses go under and leave somebody else to eat the losses.

 

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I would so love to see Amazon thumb their nose at Seattle and do this !


Warning issued after council votes for corporate wealth tax to help tackle city’s housing crisis

Amazon recently got billions of dollars in tax breaks courtesy of the last tax bill. The homeless are saying 'hey brother, can you spare me a dime, and this guy bezos, with newfound taxpayer money running out of his bodily orifices, threatens to take his ball and go play elsewhere. Typical.

Why would they spare a dime? You not working, is not somehow an obligation on my part, to spare you a dime.

Amazon provides thousands on thousands of jobs. Instead of sitting on their butts, asking if you can spare dime, about about they apply and work one of the thousands of jobs Amazon is providing?

And what is this "new found tax money".

I earn a pay check. You TAKE money from my check. It's not "new found". It's MY FREAKIN MONEY.

Similarly, Amazon is who earn billions of dollars by providing a service and product people want. It's not "new found money", it's hard earned money, that you are trying to TAKE from Amazon, and then complaining about it if they don't.

By the way, don't sit there and pretend that somehow the government is worse off.

If Amazon leaves, Seattle will lose millions of dollars in tax revenue from all the employees that will no longer be earning a wage.

I'm guessing they also lose on stuff those employees will no longer have an income to buy, thus harming the economy.

If you think that Amazon pays zero tax on anything, and is somehow a magical drain on the local government, you are beyond crazy, and utterly economically illiterate.

This is how Venezuela became Venezuela.

Actaully Venezuela became 'Venezuela' because morons were too stupid to keep corruption at a minimum. But you 'libertarians' think it's the bestest thing ever.

Really. So in your world, you look at a situation where rice farmers were saying that due to government taxes, regulations, and controls on the market, that they were losing money on every single bag of rice they sold, and thus stopped producing rice............

Was not really about bad policy, socialist control, and destroying the market with regulation..... no no.... in your world it was just a problem of corruption?

That's your argument? I just want to clarify.

Of course you don't want to admit that sucking up to the oil companies created the civil unrest, and people that were already starving don't really give a shit about the problems of those who aren't, you apparently have the same mindset of some Hollywood moron who thinks the world is all about themselves . You obviously can't grasp basic political realities.

And of course, nobody ever says they think limited liability should be done away with; that one always gets avoided, in favor oft sniveling about minimum wage laws, complete with ridiculous claims of how bad they are, despite some 80 years of them working just fine, until they quit adjusting for them inflation, and made them ineffective.

The Federal minimum needs to be around $17.60, by the most conservative estimates, and around $27 or so, if one wants to use the gold standard adjustments. For those of you who think 'everybody else' should work for the 'global average wage', 25 cents an hour, feel free to move to your Red Chinese corporate Paradise and live happily ever after. There are planes and ships leaving every day for all of the shitholes you admire and think are grand. Go be all you can be, and leave hell holes like Seattle behind.