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SEATTLE -- After weeks of tense and raucous meetings, the Seattle City Council has approved a tax on the city's large businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks to raise money to fight homelessness.
The council on Monday unanimously backed a compromise tax plan that will charge large businesses about $275 per full-time worker a year. It's lower than the $500-per-worker tax initially proposed. The tax would begin in 2019 and raise about $48 million a year to pay for affordable housing and homeless services.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/seattl...-like-amazon-starbucks-to-fight-homelessness/
This is an overwhelmingly stupid tax and will do little to fight homelessness. Many businesses will be forced to close and leave the city. Do these liberals (who ironically are joining Trump on the anti-Bezos/Amazon chorus) realize that other businesses besides Amazon and Starbucks exist in Seattle? Many of these businesses are barely making a profit.
These people truly hate capitalism.
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