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Amazon VP statement on Seattle's new per-worker tax on large companies to help pay toward the city’s homelessness and affordable housing crises

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) May 16 '18, 10:24

“We are disappointed by today’s City Council decision to introduce a tax on jobs. While we have resumed construction planning for [Amazon's Seattle campus expansion] Block 18, we remain very apprehensive about the future created by the council’s hostile approach and rhetoric toward larger businesses, which forces us to question our growth here.”

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They won anyway. I was there last week and it was all over the news that it was going to be $550 a head and they pressured the mayor to lower it by - jnine May 16, 11:18
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How dare you try and make them help remedy the problems their success has contributed to? -- nm - znufrii May 16, 10:36 4
- You're right. - Strongbad May 16, 10:38 3
  - 0% or 100%, the only possible answers! -- nm - Reagen May 16, 10:56
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  - One man’s punishment is another’s resolution of economic imbalances that allow for private gain by imposition of a public cost. -- nm - znufrii May 16, 10:49

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Amazon VP statement on Seattle's new per-worker tax on large companies to help pay toward the city’s homelessness and affordable housing crises

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