Seattle passes payroll tax targeting Amazon and other big businesses

I don’t get how people are painting Bezos as the villain
He’s the hero
He’s the American Dream Like dusty rhodes

he built an empire out of an online bookstore
He created a lots of jobs for lots of people
He made consumers happy by giving them competitive pricing and home delivery
He made small businesses thrive by having them on the best e commerce market in the world.
AWS runs the internet yo


He and Bill Gates put Seattle on the map for innovation

and Seattle wants to milk his company and his employees and us the customers ?

He’s the Dark Knight . He has to be Bruce Wayne and Batman.

Seattle is the joker

 

Facebook and google are in Austin too

 

well tell me why the mayor won’t sign the bill?

she’s scared of Jeff?

I know all about menlo, Stanford , Palo

@basso

 

@ROXRAN
It's quite clear that Amazon is the good guy
and Seattle council is the bad guy

https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...s-headquarters-struggling-due-to-coronavirus/
Amazon to grant $5 million to small businesses near its headquarters struggling due to coronavirus

 

@Os Trigonum

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https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seatt...nsider-tax-amazon-polls-employees-relocation/

Seattle business leaders ask city to reconsider tax after Amazon polls employees about relocation

The Downtown Seattle Association is asking the Seattle City Council to reconsider a new payroll tax following a news report that Amazon polled employees about which communities they’d prefer to work from elsewhere in the region.

“This news should be deeply concerning to the city and is another early warning of the long-term, damaging impacts that Seattle’s tax on jobs will have on recovery, the city’s future economic health, and local tax revenues to fund critical municipal services,” wrote Jon Scholes, president and CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association, in a letter Friday to Council President Lorena Gonzalez and Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, the City Council budget chair.

Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Amazon polled employees about which cities in the region they’d prefer as new “office workplace options,” including Tacoma and Redmond. Amazon hasn’t commented publicly on the poll, but GeekWire confirmed its existence independently from people inside the company.

“We respectfully urge you to reconsider your decision to impose this tax during the most severe economic crisis to hit Seattle in nearly 100 years,” wrote Scholes. “Seattle still faces double-digit unemployment, and employment rates for low-income workers have decreased by 47% since March. Several sectors, including hospitality and arts and culture, remain largely shut down, and the future remains uncertain.”

 

What now Seattle ?
Don’t mess with Jeff
He will turn you into Detroit

 

What now Seattle?
You play checkers
Jeff playing chess on your chop ass
@Os Trigonum