Amazon's Jeff Bezos Is ... Jeff Bezos
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It all seemed desperate, indecent.
But there was a story behind the story. Amazon has every reason to be looking for an escape route from the Evergreen State’s biggest city.
The city’s leadership is nuts.
“Seattle City Council members have finally released draft legislation,” the Seattle Times’ Daniel Beekman wrote last month, “for a new tax on large employers that would raise $75 million next year to address homelessness.”
The council blames the big companies for enticing workers into the city, thereby driving up rental costs and housing prices.
The tax would be on employee hours, would go into effect next year, and “in 2021, it would be replaced by a 0.7 percent payroll tax on the same category of companies,” explains the Seattle Times.
Now, if you tax something you discourage that something. That’s why progressives like sin taxes on sodas and fast foods. To discourage consumption.
So when progressives seek to tax big producers, they are apparently trying to tax away the housing crunch by driving away big business.
Amazon reacted. It put a halt to an expansion project.
“Jeff Bezos is a bully,” said Kshama Sawant, the confessed socialist, speaking for the council. “I think we are in broad agreement on that.”
If that is her attitude, and that of the council — and the consensus of the city’s denizens — then what Amazon’s Jeff Bezos really is?
A “good businessman.”
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Paul Jacob is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service.
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