Seattle to tax big businesses

**blah3** · 07-08-2020, 01:48 PM

Seattle's City Council has approved a new tax for the city's biggest businesses and their highest earners, such as Amazon.

Called the "JumpStart Seattle" tax, the bill passed late Monday on a 7-2 vote and is expected to go into effect in 2021. Money from the tax will initially be used to fund coronavirus relief but will eventually go toward addressing housing and homelessness in Seattle.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...usinesses.html

This is just stupid. Let’s punish successful companies who hire a lot of people.

**owknows** · 07-08-2020, 01:57 PM

It's the "suckers can pay for the mess we made in the city" tax.

**steelerhater** · 07-08-2020, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by blah3

Seattle's City Council has approved a new tax for the city's biggest businesses and their highest earners, such as Amazon.

Called the "JumpStart Seattle" tax, the bill passed late Monday on a 7-2 vote and is expected to go into effect in 2021. Money from the tax will initially be used to fund coronavirus relief but will eventually go toward addressing housing and homelessness in Seattle.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...usinesses.html

This is just stupid. Let’s punish successful companies who hire a lot of people.

And watch these businesses move out of Seattle taking all those jobs with them.

**BustOfPallas** · 07-08-2020, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by steelerhater

And watch these businesses move out of Seattle taking all those jobs with them.

Ding ding ding ding!!!! We have a winner!

**wickedsolo** · 07-08-2020, 02:21 PM

And soon we will see all of those businesses leave Seattle.

**NCRAVEN** · 07-08-2020, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by wickedsolo

And soon we will see all of those businesses leave Seattle.

And it'll be the new Detroit. It's like these people don't pay attention to history or something.

**BustOfPallas** · 07-08-2020, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by NCRAVEN

And it'll be the new Detroit. It's like these people don't pay attention to history or something.

I don't know if it will get that bad but it has the potential to be another west coast gem turned sh**hole.

**BcRaven** · 07-08-2020, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by owknows

It's the "suckers can pay for the mess we made in the city" tax.

Originally Posted by steelerhater

And watch these businesses move out of Seattle taking all those jobs with them.

Originally Posted by BustOfPallas

Ding ding ding ding!!!! We have a winner!

Ah, this must be :

The three wise men seem to have said it all. Nothing more for me to say... Bc

P.S. -Hmmm, perhaps in the "safe space" they have created in Seattle, without policing or a tax base, they will discover the Utopia they desire (?) Glad I live on the other coast.

**Ortizer** · 07-08-2020, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by wickedsolo

And soon we will see all of those businesses leave Seattle.

Time for Amazon hq1 to move east?

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**owknows** · 07-08-2020, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Ortizer

Time for Amazon hq1 to move east?

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It might have been NY... but AOC screwed that over.

**darb72** · 07-08-2020, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ortizer

Time for Amazon hq1 to move east?

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They're going to Texas.

It amazes me how supposedly intelligent people continue making the same stupid mistakes over and over again.

**BcRaven** · 07-09-2020, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by owknows

It might have been NY... but AOC screwed that over.

I live in NYC, so don't get me started on her. Amazon was going to upgrade an area that badly needed it, and were going to employ many people. Only a politician with an axe to grind would oppose it. Of course our other politicians fell in line otherwise be labeled "XYZ" (fill that in for yourselves). So what if Amazon got a "sweetheart" deal? Isn't the role of our so-called leaders to improve our city and have people on payrolls? She is a disgrace as are those who fell in lock-step behind... Bc