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Seattle approves tax on businesses like Amazon, Starbucks to fight homelessness

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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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When I see images like this, it disgusts me. How Americans can attack people that earn and create wealth is baffling.
 
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.

Big ass mistake for Seattle. They are the poster child for how not to draw new businesses to your city.
 
Big ass mistake for Seattle. They are the poster child for how not to draw new businesses to your city.

Groceries stores, restaurants, and markets run on paper-thin margins. How can they afford to do business in a city like this?
 
More taxes....a Liberal's solution to everything.
 
Southern Californian's **** up their stat and get so upset they move north to Washington, then they **** up another state. Washington is doomed. Plus they have a 10% sales tax already.
 
Southern Californian's **** up their stat and get so upset they move north to Washington, then they **** up another state. Washington is doomed. Plus they have a 10% sales tax already.

Many of these socialists and liberals have no idea how businesses operate.

Here is a socialists elected in office:

Sawant, who is a socialist, wants tax dollars used on hygiene and other resources so campers at the 400 unauthorized encampments can stay where they are.

A: Jeff Bezos is a bully, I think we are in broad agreement on that. We saw the tweet from Bernie Sanders. What is happening is Amazon and Jeff Bezos are using their incomprehensible amount of wealth to hold an entire city hostage, to hold construction jobs hostage, saying they can’t pay a pocket change worth of taxes -- that’s the behavior of a bully."

Sawant calls Amazon CEO a ‘bully’ and some residents angry over homeless camps ‘right-wing NIMBYists’ | Q13 FOX News

People like this honestly believe the money you earn is not yours.
 
Groceries stores, restaurants, and markets run on paper-thin margins. How can they afford to do business in a city like this?

Yanno if some on the rather extreme right would do just a bit of research... The new law is for businesses doing more than 20 million annual or an estimated 585 businesses... :peace
 
I dont see where the corporations got anywhere pushing the city government to turn in better work on this problem, the demand was for the city to address past failures, lack of accountability, and to also use best practices to devise a plan for a way forwards before seeking funding.

Obviously none of that happened.
 
The mayor claiming victory and warm fuzzies even as she admits that big business is not on-board and that the majority of the homeless are migrants.....which makes one wonder how throwing more money towards the homeless is supposed to help, encouraging more to come.

Watch: Seattle Mayor responds to employee head tax
 
Groceries stores, restaurants, and markets run on paper-thin margins. How can they afford to do business in a city like this?

Ooops!
There goes their tax base.
Wait until they find out the homeless aren't really known for paying taxes.
Socialism is great until you run out of money.
 
Big mistake, way too many doubts on this working out long term. Feel good effort with potential negative consequence for Seattle.
 
Safeway is a discount grocery store. They already stated they are closing.
 
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