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.