Amazon confirmed they're spending another $1.05M on the Seattle City Council elections. That brings the total to $1.45 million.
This is how billionaires like Bezos protects their wealth. By buying hyper-local elected seats to prevent any future taxes.
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This is how billionaires like Bezos protects their wealth. By buying hyper-local elected seats to prevent any future taxes.
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“We are disappointed by today’s City Council decision to introduce a tax on jobs … we remain very apprehensive about the future created by the council’s hostile approach and rhetoric toward larger businesses, which forces us to question our growth here,” Amazon VP Drew Herdener,
Average global Amazon salary is 25k.
1/3 of Amazon employees are on food stamps. Amazon's own employees need the #headtax to help fund affordable housing they don't have access to.
Tax on Amazon would only be paying $20 million/yr. That's less than 1 days worth of Amazon profit.
1/3 of Amazon employees are on food stamps. Amazon's own employees need the #headtax to help fund affordable housing they don't have access to.
Tax on Amazon would only be paying $20 million/yr. That's less than 1 days worth of Amazon profit.
Bezos is refusing to pay a tax that would benefit his own employees that are struggling to survive. He's holding labor workers hostage until he gets his way. #TaxAmazon
#headtax is a no brainer and the fear mongering big businesses/corporations are implanting is shameful. THE TAX WILL NOT TAKE AWAY JOBS. The same type of fear mongering was used when WA state was trying to pass $15 minimum wage. This tax will only impact the top 1% of businesses.
