Seattle is worried about the well-being of the poor and mentally ill people living there, so it's going to drive businesses out of town.
OK, that's not how the politicians describe their plan, but that's probably how it will work out.
Members of Seattle's city council want all big Seattle businesses to pay a tax of $500 per employee.
In response, Amazon stopped building a new complex. Construction workers joined Amazon in protesting the new tax.
On the other side are city council members like Kshama Sawant. She and members of her political party, Socialist Alternative, demonstrated in support of the tax. They chanted, "Housing is a human right!"
...Sawant and the other big-taxers try to make productive companies, which employ people so they can afford things like rent, sound like villains. She called Amazon's threat to leave "extortion." The activist group Working Washington asked Seattle's attorney general to charge Amazon with the crime of "issuing mob-like threats."
Mob-like threats? Amazon just wants to be left alone so it can build complexes, hire people and sell stuff.
As usual, government is the organization that sounds mob-like.
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Originally Posted by The Xl
