Seattle’s "Amazon Tax"
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2018
- Seattle’s city council passed a new tax Monday. It will charge big companies $275 for every employee.
The “head” tax is supposed to fund housing for the homeless. Supporters of the tax chanted “housing is a human right!” at a protest lead by City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, a member of the “Socialist Alternative” party.
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Seattle homelessness has doubled in the last 8 years. Politicians blame a shortage of “affordable” housing, but John Stossel says that the politicians own bad policies helped create that shortage.
Seattle’s building code is 745 pages long. (link: www.seattle.gov/dpd/codesrules...) “Welded splices shall be of ASTM A706 steel,” the code notes, in an endless list of rules. The residential building code is another 685 pages.
Developers can’t build big apartment buildings because in most of Seattle’s residential land area, high-rises are illegal; zoning rules say only single family houses may be built.
If Seattle just repealed many of those regulations, affordable housing would grow, Stossel says.
Instead, Seattle’s politicians will tax big tax companies and use the money to buy housing for homeless people.
That upset Amazon, Seattle’s largest employer. It paused construction of a new office building in Seattle. Construction workers went into the streets to back Amazon, and counter-protest the socialist councilwoman’s pro-tax rally.
Supporters of big government aren’t used to protesters drowning them out. Sawant accused Amazon of “extortion” and slammed Amazon owner Jeff Bezos on TV: “He said he has so much money that he doesn’t know what to do with it ... I want your viewers to understand who’s the enemy here.”
The “enemy”? Stossel says: Give me a break! Bezos created the jobs that she now wants to tax.
This week, Amazon partly won its fight; Seattle’s city council approved a $275 per employee tax instead of the $540 that Sawant and the other leftists proposed.
Sawant accused Seattle’s Mayor of “dramatically weakening [the] Tax Amazon bill. Grim reminder: working people can't rely on corporate politicians.”
Corporate politicians? Stossel points out that the $275/head tax will hurt job creation too. No wonder Amazon is looking to build its next headquarters outside of Seattle.
Give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and the socialists TAX HALF HIS CATCH!
Shepperd November ...only half?
Chris Conger The other half will be confiscated (appropriated) for the homeless!
The Internetz is Broken I viewed it. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry , or get angry! I chose to laugh.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Don't teach a man how to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man; fishing's not that hard."
-Ron Swanson
These weak and unskilled socialists are demanding that successful, skilled people house them, feed them, and give them money. They are the grown man who can't catch a fish.
We need to just say "no, I work hard to better my life, not yours."
RyanRants Teach a man to fish and the environmentalists will declare the lake a protected wetland and the fish a protected species!
Seattle is about to tax it's self out of existence.
But they are like, really progessive.
Like Chicago
dm8867 Not just the city of Chicago but all of Cook County.
John Pagdilao and then comes California
The self-defeating nature of big govt and the leftists that prop them up. What's sad? That neither of them are open-minded enough to see what's so obvious. Seattle, another once awesome city being obliterated by leftist policy.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
which is another reason why women need their rights taken away. because the majority women vote democrat, and are the majority voters. and it's probably the only way of shutting down the welfare state before if sends us into a collapse. but they will still lose their rights when the collapse happens, because nobody has rights when there is no government to govern them.
52262 let’s slow it down here
@Generic Русский thank you lady.men support their woman with love and resources and the woman submits and supports him with other types of work like childcare which is so important for a child but father is equally important
@Generic Русский don't forget that it was the women's suffrage movement of the early 1900s that creates the 18th amendment.
The banning the sale and distribution of alcohol.
We all saw what problem that caused.
The gangsters ruled during prohibition.
Well some people don’t pay taxes so maybe we should start taxing them and then see what wonderful things we can do with it.
"I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take someone else's money"
-Thomas Sowell
Head taxes will only make automation happen faster.
Jesse I feel like this has always been a poor argument.
I want more automation. America is worse off with people working in jobs that could easily be automated.
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I always think of this chart.
Saying that minimum wage stops people from getting their first job, and setting down a successful career is the problem, not that it introduces more robots.
I'm not against automation. The problem is that automation is gonna start killing jobs faster then they are created and we don't need to make it worse by having high minimum wages and head taxes.
Just lower everyone’s pay by $0.27/hr. That’s the reality these people who think increasing taxes is a solution. Watch, Amazon will just reduce pay there. Oh, pass a law against lowering pay? Ok, no more raises now. Oh, pass a law to force companies to give raises? Atlas shrugs, and nobody has a job.
That is not true. Automation helps drop prices and the consumers of those services/products have more money to spend on other things they would not have bought or on more of those same products or services, and with lower prices there are more of that product or service bought by other consumers. Inefficient jobs decline while jobs appear in other things or locations.
Ah but these are SOCIALIST idiots. They believe they will eventually control the businesses in their fantasy land.
I love that their plan to end homelessness is make it harder for employers to have employees.
Amazon is creating the homeless problem you fucking moron. God you conservatards are nuts.
Joe Smith how?
@@squatch545
Need proof for that
@@asain3586 It's called the market, Einstein. An influx of highly paid tech workers drive up the price of houses and rents, leaving anyone who can't afford the sky high cost of housing to be homeless. Then Amazon lobbies Seattle City council (sending fake counter protesters to rallies) to fight a small tax proposed to help alleviate the homeless crisis. Amazon wins and the city is paralyzed and can't do anything. Do I really have to explain this to you?
@@thiruvalluvar3880 It's called the market, Einstein. An influx of highly paid tech workers drive up the price of houses and rents, leaving anyone who can't afford the sky high cost of housing to be homeless. Then Amazon lobbies Seattle City council (sending fake counter protesters to rallies) to fight a small tax proposed to help alleviate the homeless crisis. Amazon wins and the city is paralyzed and can't do anything. Do I really have to explain this to you?
"Housing is a human right!"
Umm....I don't think the word "right" means what you think it means.
You don't have a right to someone else's services. But these people seem believe otherwise
I've never met a leftist who understood the difference between positive and negative rights.
Or for that matter, the reality that claiming a right does not make goods materialize. You can sit alone on a desert island and claim your right to healthcare all you want, but doctors will not appear. But amazingly your right to free speech, property, and self defense is still intact.
Right tell that to the cave men
@Christopher Michos So can I build in your backyard? Or on a state park? Nothing is there
Yes housing is a human right.. You have the right to work hard and to get the housing that you can get it doesn't mean you get a mansion it doesn't mean you get a fancy apartment it means you get To put forth the effort if you cannot afford it there then you must move n seek employment where you can afford to live
How about everybody at the protest take in a homeless person? There, problem solved.
No that wouldn't solve the problem at all. You teach a man to fish
woah hold on there with all that logic buckaroo.We don't use that in these parts
@@fookinaye8277 > You teach a man to fish For normal people, yes. But these homeless don't want to fish (they want to just keep shooting up), or are mentally unable to fish...
@@fookinaye8277 Can't teach those whom don't want to learn!
Universal truth of all left-wing ideology. They never want to help anyone themselves. They want to make other people help other people. You never see a single left-winger say "I demand I pay more to help the poor".
Ha! And I bet the actual homeless will never see a dime of it...
yes they will, more fences to keep them out! up to 32 mil a year now! Seattle cares!
Sawant needs to be deported. She's ignorant. My favorite thing she said a couple years ago was that Boeing should shut down and make buses instead of airplanes.
Erik A Haha. Oh god I need to look that quote up. We have idiot lefties running the city near me too. Badly, of course.
and I bet you she calls donald trump a fascist.
Oh...wait the 15$ minimum wage, "is going to fix the problems with poverty".
I mean, obviously you clearly don't understand how it would solve all the problems.
Look, $15 minimum wage is affordable because businesses can just print more money. How dare you even suggest a person with no skill, poor life choices, and a lack of motivation to improve and climb up the working ladder by acquiring a in-demand skill, doesn't deserve $15 an hour!
How will they feed their family of 12 and work part time at McDonalds 18 hours a week? I bet you're a fucking republican.
So lower wages is going to solve the problem? How so?
@@SEAL341 Lower wages will allow more businesses to start up (especially with less regulation) and the higher supply of services will lower costs allowing the low wage earners to have almost the same life style that they would have had with higher wages. Except with the lower wages you can have internships/jobs that allow people to earn wages and get skills, but with higher wages people who want entry-level jobs can't get them. Ship the unemployed to Vietnam, Thailand, Phillipines, or China and see how much easier it is for them to get jobs, and live even with very low wages. Go try to make a company in the US vs over there as well.
aoeu256
Talking sense like that usually doesn't permeate the liberal mind, though I admire you for trying. Hopefully it sinks in with Mr braddock, but who knows?
Amazon will just move, then Seattle will have to tax middle class, middle class leave, Seattle breaks down both physically and politically
GM45 _ Seattle will just become Detroit.
I still say amazon and all the other big buisness should just pack up shop and move elsewhere. Let seattle find out how bad the homeless problem gets when there are no big employers providing jobs and all the little employers also go out of buisness because theres not enough folks with jobs to patronize them. Very quickly the only ones that will have jobs will be government employees, at least till the city goes bankrupt.
Merendel go on, Atlas... shrug.
All they have to do is take a field trip to Detroit.
Merendel "I still",,,,, and most government employees vote Democrat along with creating polices to subvert the 'intent of law' when it goes against the socialist agenda.
Be careful what you wish for. Many Rust Belt cities are just now beginning to recover from the loss of the Steel and automotive industries- and that mostly happened in the 1970's and 80's. You don't want another Gary, IN or Detroit MI out there... (as much as we'd all love to see all these Marxist "progressives" forced to lay in the beds they've made for themselves)
Just like Detroit.
Too bad. Amazon should have rejected the deal. Seattle needs a lesson in civics, but most of all in economics. I fled that city 20 years ago, and have only seen my decision validated over and over and over again.
If you owned a home 20 years ago, you'd be much much richer today.
Amazon has no say in tax policies. The communist-leaning city council doesn't negotiate, they think there's a "billionaire" class that they must hate with all their small minds.
JamesG i was raised in Spokane. The minimum wage hike is killing small mom and pop places. We fell like we have no voice in the state.
I live in Central WA. One would think we were somewhat insulated from the big-city madness. Yet every day I see the impact of boneheaded policies emanating mostly from the extremist politics of the Olympia/King County/west coast region. These people are an authoritarian nightmare. They seem to have no concept of the precepts of liberty and representative government that are the foundation this country.
JamesG I left California in 94. I could never afford to own a home there and the politics!!! Doing well in Texas.
Demand in Seattle is growing, now the cost to have a large business there is growing too. Makes sense to me.
"Housing is a human right" shut up with that, work for a house like all other people
Or at least push to get rid of these nonsense regulations. I could build just as good a house for a fraction of the price of this regulated nonsense.
The irony of a government official, who’s actively extorting companies, accusing amazon of extortion
No Head Tax! No Head Tax! I love it. Finally people representing opinions that differ from the mainstream narrative. Keep up the great work John!
'No Head Tax' IS the mainstream narrative you fucking moron.
I love that they pass a law to take someone's money, then call the victim extortionist. 😂😂
That's leftist ideology. Backwards, stupid, contradictory, hypocrite and finally ignorant. All those added together, creates INSANITY.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Keith Roy. I love how you think Amazon isn't the one taking someone's money by paying so little that worker's have to go on food stamps to survive, and by driving up real estate prices that no one can afford to rent. But if you feel any tax is unjustified, please stop using tax funded services, you fucking hypocrite!
Joe Smith I love how you equate people giving them money voluntarily in exchange for desired commodities, with taxation.
Since I actually dislike Amazon, I refuse to use their service, and no one tries to force me. If I try to refuse to use or pay for the "services" that Seattle "provides", it will be forcibly taken from me, with the power of lethal force, if necessary. Many jurisdictions are criminalizing going off grid, or any other way of not using these services of which you speak.
Who is the hypocrite?
Joe Smith Your argument is also nonsensical in another way. In Silicon Valley, real estate prices were driven up by companies paying high wages. In Seattle, apparently according to you, real estate prices were driven up by a company paying too low wages.?.?
I have an idea to the politician who wants the "head tax" move to Venezuela!
Amazon should have just proven a point and left the Seattle area. The citizens of Seattle would have had the council’s heads on a stake the next day.
Unfortunately Paul, no they would not. Kshama Sawant(the Socialist Council member in the piece) was re-elected as well as most of the City Council.
> "HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT! TAX THE BIG BUSINESSES!!!"
> "Wtf? Why are there robots now!?!?!? Why are all these businesses leaving?!??!"
Captain Strangiato
I long for the days when people knew what human rights were.
Hawaii’s minimum wage is $10.50 and most fast food places and other businesses are laying off people and adding more kiosks, but hey liberals know best!
Nobody is leaving yet, and the homeless are flocking to our socialist wet dream.
If housing is a human right, why doesn't it apply on desert island?
Imu Lippo, no one to tax?
The American taxpayer
Were the first people punished
The last people considered
Nate Hahn yes. That’s because women, as a whole, have more voting power than men.
Awwww....you poor victim.
Joe Smith Joe Smith you can leave move to Norway would ya tell me how well they're doing or Canada do tell
I do sometimes feel bad for honest, hard-working people, because they really do get the short-end of the stick EVERY TIME.
I'm a stock trader for that reason.
I knew, long ago, I did not want to be an 'honest, hard-working person'. I wanted to be a card-counter and use the rest of my free-time to enjoy life, instead of being stuck in a traffic jam trying to get to a dead-end job I hate, but that I've conned myself into thinking will lead to something better. How does that help anyone? If anything it just makes the traffic jam worse!
Everything aimed at stealing from the rich actually just winds up stealing from the employees, sometimes taking all their jobs away. (See Detroit for details.)
Eara Soulous. I live in Canada, and have relatives in Norway, two countries that are doing much better than your sh*thole country.
"If you don't give us more of your money, it's extortion." Is this a joke?
I'll tell you something about the homeless. If you build it (shelters, food kitchens, medical, etc,.) they will come - more and more of them . After all, if you were homeless, wouldn't you go where all the services were? It's a smart survival decision...but it costs everyone else...what do you do?
answer, quit feeding the animals DA ?
The company I work for has contracts with the city to do certain types of "emergency" construction and board ups. Occasionally an empty house will get 'taken' over by a group of homeless, usually drug addicts. Cops bust in and get them out, then we try to repair where they broke in and seal it from further entry. I've seen so much nasty shit from the homeless, I've just lost all sympathy. Before starting the job I definitely had sympathy, thought it was the world against them, but through experience I've come to realize it really does just come down to laziness and lack of any effort whatsoever.
You poison what you offer them. Done deal..
Let private businesses run it, NOT THE GOVERNMENT NOT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT. PRIVATE BUSINESSES HAVE TO RUN IT.
How else will they ever understand the necessity of being self reliant?
If they're able bodied, you eventually have to cut the umbilical cord.
No wonder Amazon is looking for a 2nd HQ.....
Liberty Tree yeah I live just north of ft. Worth. I think the Austin and dallas areas have been widely looked at. I honestly don't think Dallas or Ft. Worth will get it because our tech sector is not as mature as Austin's or other cheap metros.
It’ll end up being the HQ at the rate Seattle is chasing them
These people need to learn how business and finance work, and how regulations affect things. Then, they claim Amazon is pitting workers against workers. You did that because of bad policy making. You all have to work together and compromise to get deals that benefit everyone.
Random Jasmine
Government and business are two separate things, and should be run as so. This idea that government should be run like business is not a good one. I want my government to be concerned with the welfare of the public, and not to have a profit motive.
Bean counter. If the gov't doesn't count it's beans there's no welfare for anyone... The headcount is a losing plan. Everyone will b unemployed, even gov't.
Well said.
This is not a compromise situation, never compromise with the aggressor. Even a $1 head tax would be counter intuitive.
Bean Counter /
Government should be run like a business. Right now there aren't any consequences for politicians if something goes wrong. They cash in and if things go south, they just resign and take the next gov. gig.
They should give politicians a low fixed salery and high commissions if we see the desired results.
Hope Amazon gives them the finger and moves out of town to a better state.
There should be a “picket sign tax”.
I just hope this nonsense doesn't spread to Bellevue WA where Valve is headquartered.
yeah. If they do, who knows when we would receive Half Life 3: the Card Game.
it won't. bellevue belongs to the old people. their city is also extremely clean and well managed in comparison.
Also disturbingly polite like Canadians. those guys wait in straight lines for the bus (even if it' reaches 50 feet long) while in Seattle we just make a mob at the front.
what don't you like about washington? the laws are always reasonable so it's not like communist california or as unjust as texas. ranked 2nd in legal juries in the country with delaware ranked 1st. the state is very similar to Vermont and Virginia. Has good protection of rights but never on the extreme sides of politics. The only bad thing are the sales taxes at 10%, but most states have 7% already.
No,housing is not a human right, but earning a living is.
Seems that you haven't your concepts right.
"housing" perse is not a right but you are free to buy one or build one and nobody (even the government as long as you pay for it) can stop you. Right meas "you can"but doesn't means "government (or other) must provide.
Same as "earning a living": You have the right to do so (as long as you are not a criminal) or to sit and do nothing but DOES NOT mean that somebody MUST give you a job.
Hard working dudes that actually build everything standing firm to protest for a change. It's about time!
Leave it to government if you want a project to take longer and cost more....
You want find this story in the main stream news media. As has been said the problem with Socialism is "sooner or later you run out of other people's money".
Sooner or later capitalism runs out of slaves.
for Politicians too much is Never Enough!
Got the top 50 or 60 companies to move out of state together, Seattle will be singing a different toon real fast.
Hey look it's Seattle it's going to be the next California
Chanting is a human right!
CHANTING IS A HUMAN RIGHT!!!
Oh yea why not raise taxes for other people? As long as it is not me it's ok.
Sup Gavin, I’m Gavin
Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that man behind that tree!
If I was amazon I’d just move to Texas.
The climate is good in the south. Amazon. Come on down.
Hey, more jobs for states like Texas. Just leave the lefties where you found'em.
There are even more homeless in Texas. It's not a capitalist paradise.
Very funny. As of the 2017 Census, California is at 24.28% (134,278) and Texas is only at 4.26% (23,548)
wtf now housing is a human right too? When are we getting smartphones and internet as one too?
France has already made internet a right.
I thought Amazon was coming to Las Vegas.
I heard Reno
They already did
Amazon should leave
Socialist never fully think out the ramifications of their demands and actions. Every country that has ever been socialist makes this mistake.
I do agree that homelessness is a problem but more taxes is not the solution. More taxes will make the problem even worse.
If the city's excessive building is what is causing the artificial supply shortage then they need to be simplified more to get builders to build more. They should meet with builders and find out why they are not building and what the government can do to help speed up the process.
More taxes will cause companies to relocate to a lower tax area which will cause a lot of unemployment not for just the workers of Amazon but in places where Amazon workers spend money. The ripple effect is normally about 8 times greater than the money lost in that area.
Another way that Amazon could save is by eliminating as many human workers with robots and AI that make financial sense. A $500 tax could be the tipping point that causes the company to leave or start eliminating human workers. I am sure that Seattle would put a head tax on all robot workers so it would be best for them to relocate elsewhere.
Could not agree more. It's very simple. Anything you tax, you get less of. Anything you subsidize, you get more of. Taxing jobs to subsidize homelessness will create less jobs and more homelessness.
I don't care what anyone says in a reply, no one can make me not love The Donald.
#MAGA
wkdravenna....I wasn't a fan of him originally and I didn't vote for him in 2016....but in 2020....he has my vote.
jockoboy 46 .....added jobs across the US, black unemployment at historic low, stock market at historic high, decades long Korean War ending and more progress made there than the past 50 years combined......yeah....The Donald is suckling ass. You must absolutely hate America. Feel free to leave.
everydayidie alilmore you are most likely the patron saint of some European country. 😁
What if I told you he had a pizza party and didn't invite you? I cant think of any thing more cruel.
Amazon come to Texas. We will give you tax breaks and love. I just ordered something from Amazon today. We order from Amazon ALL THE TIME. Texas loves Amazon...and Toyota cause we got that too now. God bless Texas.
They're looking more and more like California.
Amazon should move hq to detroit. Can you imagine
yay daily robbery. just kidding, they move to wherever they get the biggest tax exemption or lowest expenses in general.
They could buy 100% of Detroit.
Carbon Addiction yes they need to go where they will be appreciated.
Why the fuck would they move to Detroit? Detroit had the reputation it does because of the same idiots now destroying Seattle. They're still there, they never left; the same idiots who destroyed Detroit are still there. Fighting over the vacant buildings, crumbling infrastructure and 'revenue' which doesn't exist. They're crying about companies who left the state 50 years ago! Completely oblivious to why things are the way they are. Yea, property's cheap, but then what?
I thought amazon was a social justice company and if they are shouldn't they be glad to pay and if they are a social justice company they should pay a lot more.
2:44. Help the “homless” spell gooder.
Thanks for catching that golden moment!
they are demanding - under penalty of the law - 500 bucks a head for having full time employees, and then accuse amazon of extortion.
Don't bite the hand that feeds
Has anyone bothered to look at how much their bike lanes are costing tax payers? That is plenty of money to house the homeless....
Only $12 million per mile for less then %3 of the population paid for by higher fees for tabs on cars.
For the anti bicycle crowds, leave the topic of bike lanes out since it does not belong in response to the housing crisis. Shame to those who are discriminating against any politician who is not a white Male NY business tycoon and president of the old USA.
@Charming Billy, yes you are right when you mention about taxes and the relation to such applications. However I do believe people can deal with problems in relation to socioeconomic changes without discrimination. And yes I do ride a bike for the sake of saving on gas costs and reducing my carbon footprint--it actually doesn't hurt and it's more enjoyable than driving on our outdated infranstructure with heated tempers flaring behind the wheel.
Your right John, why should the worlds richest man who owns the worlds most profitable company pay any taxes at all? I mean he doesn’t pay any federal taxes... and he makes billions in profit every year... That $275 per head might put him out of business.
The fact that he doesn’t build buildings with accessible bathrooms or lunch ares for his employees is all because he HAS to save a few buck because of all of those TAXES...
Oh wait... I said he doesn’t pay taxes...
🤔
If the Politicians wanted to give Homeless People a place to live then they should invite them into their own homes.
#TaxationIsTheft
Best thing you can do is to leave the state. Go to a state that produces jobs and have low sales & income tax. Goodluck!
She want's to extort the money, but when they refuse to pay she calls it extortion.
There was a time when Bank of America and Wells Fargo were headquartered in San Francisco. The pioneered the "tax them until they move away" process of creating huge economic problems for their communities. I'm sure Seattle leadership thinks "That could never happen to us!" I'm the meantime, there's a steady stream of business moving out of states like that and into those states who show appreciation for the jobs businesses provide.
i love u stossel. even though i disagree with a lot of the things you say, i love that you use facts and theories and calmly state in an educated manner your opinion which is why i love listening to you. both the left and the right have the problem of just screaming and not presenting facts, but you do not, which is why I love watching/listening to you all the time.
Good old Socialism, destroying bussineses and blaming it on the free market.
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
(Quotes from President Calvin Coolidge)
Amazon and Walmart destroyed many self employed small business people, putting them out of business. The former business owners then have to work for the big corporations at half what they used to earn as corporate profits continue to rise.
Ok guys, I'm a Seattlite. I was born in Seattle in 2001 when the average house price was $230,000 and now, 17 years later the average price of a home is almost at $900,000. The school systems here require teachers to have masters degrees in teaching. These teachers are then only paid $55,000 a year. That's not even enough to get by with most apartments. I have a few teachers that have a 1 hour+ commute to work each day. Seattle's big "boom" with Amazon has hurt my city. Houses prices have increase exponentially and us Seattle natives are being pushed out of our homes. Alot of Amazon employees are not from the north west. Our beautiful city has only been hurt by Amazons growth.
Don't believe that. A new teacher just started and brings home more than $60,000/year. www.seattletimes.com/business/student-loan-debt-stresses-out-a-new-elementary-school-teacher/
> The school systems here require teachers to have masters degrees in teaching. These teachers are then only paid $55,000 a year
If that were true you should have one of the better nation wide results but as everywhere else in US I only can find BAD THINGS about Seattle's school system.
> That's not even enough to get by with most apartments.
Bad for them but if they are good and have master degrees would be easy for they to get a better job elsewhere, isn't?
> I have a few teachers that have a 1 hour+ commute to work each day.
Most people have that problem.
> Seattle's big "boom" with Amazon has hurt my city
So this new tax is an invitation for then to leave?
> Houses prices have increase exponentially
Simply offer and demand - What the HELL they teach you in schools nowadays? Is BASIC ECONOMICS!
> us Seattle natives are being pushed out of our homes
So they (non natives) kicked out by FORCE to the natives? So the police (and city counsel) allowed that?
Or perhaps they SOLD to newcomers?
> A lot of Amazon employees are not from the north west.
So what?
They use their salary to CONSUME goods and services in Seattle, isn't?
That means more grocery stores, restaurants, medics, gas stations, etc. > COMMERCE! BUSINESSES!
> Our beautiful city has only been hurt by Amazons growth.
You are a STUPID KID full of BULL SHIT - if you really are 17 is not you, is what your parents or elder family members believe.
$61,800 according to the article. Also, remember teachers work 185 days a year. Giving them time to make more in the summer or holiday seasonal work. A top-notch educator can also make $85 an hour for tutoring too.
Sergio Samayoa as housing prices increase so does taxes. Basic stuff right? Owning a house in Ballard (a shitty neighborhood 20 years ago) would cost $350,000.
Nowadays it costs $1,200,000. Personally I like living in the same house my whole life instead of having to move because of the increase in property taxes
Sergio Samayoa also please don't be hostile. We are here to learn not to argue. Save that for your d&d group
You cut off the quote about the steel a bit
"Welded splices shall be of ASTM A706 steel
reinforcement."
Its a certified grade of steel reinforcement in concrete so your building doesnt fall down. If you have a problem with the American Society for Testing Materials then I suggest you make a more cohesive argument than "why does the meany government not want buildings to fall in on people"
Construction companies wouldn't want buildings to fall on their clients either.
Don't pretend building codes can't be riddled with favors to connected suppliers.
if you can demonstrate this happening stopping it should be an easy bipartisan decision
911?
The problem is that there is never a bipartisan solution. The Democrats in our government are so heavy handed and the Republicans are feckless. Even if the Repubs stepped up and actually took control and turned the direction of the government actually conservative, the Democrats would whine and cry about how they didn't have a bipartisan choice. If it were the other way, the Democrats would scoff and not care if the Repubs said the same thing.
You got it backwards. The democrats are spineless, moderate cowards that give every concession to the republicans just to be spat on
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money" --- Margaret Thatcher
“Head tax” great way to 1) drive away companies and 2)encourage companies to automate jobs getting rid of those jobs for ever
"When injustice becomes justice resistance becomes every Americans duty to throw off all oppressors foren or domestic"
Thomas Jefferson...
And that goes for corrupt corporations that think they can make up laws that only benefit them and hurts the middle class.
Always logical and clarifying. Good job!
I wonder how much of this homelessness can be attributed in some way to the $15 minimum wage in Seattle.
They meant to say... free everything is a human right! Bunch of BS
Why in the world would a business be helped responsible for the shortcomings of City Hall, I will never know! This is ridiculous!!
Councilwoman: "Let's keep fighting"!!! Getting opposition. "But if we fight among each other..."
great segment john. keep it up.
Guess what folks , you're now working 39 hours & 59 minutes a week.
"Supporters of big government aren't used to having workers drown *them* out."
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Thank you, John Stossel.
if i was the owner of amazon i would pull up all stakes and get the hell out of dodge that is just a temporary agreement and the second amazon comite they will nail them to the wall
So basically its the government trying to solve the problems it created
This $500 head tax is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my life! I can’t believe they thought this would’ve been a good idea.
"Homelessness has doubled in the last 8 years"
Gosh who was the POTUS for most of that time? I'm having trouble recalling his name. It was slightly terrorist sounding yet people kept calling him the Messiah. Can someone help me with this?????
That tax is utterly irresponsible! How did nobody realize before it was passed that it would encourage companies to either hire less workers, or leave the city altogether!? What an idiotic tax.
I don't think politicians who have never had a "real" job and mismanage their own city's finances, should be telling businesses how to do business.
I live in Seattle, and I agree with you. This tax is ill-conceived, and is going to scare away businesses. This happened once before, and Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago. People don’t learn.
That's what amazon gets for going to a unfriendly city.
Your the best John. Thanks for the videos
The people creating this problem are the land investment companies, who also happen to have most of the politicians in the city in their back pocket. The properties they own go up in value, while they don't have to do any work or put out a dime.
Restructuring rentals and taking the obscene profits out of them is really the only thing this country needs to dramatically raise the standard of living for every citizen.
The city officials at the top are making 400,000 to 500,000 a year, so they tax businesses on top of the taxation to pay for the homeless, come on man!!!
Punishing companies for hiring people doesn't make any sense, how does that fix anything?
Haha. Amazon is leaving Seattle for Bellevue. Love it.
I loved it when the construction workers showed up xD
The money they spent on picket-signs could feed the Homeless for a few months. How Virtuous and Brave they seem.
And when the businesses leave, they will have the audacity to act shocked and pretend they don't know why.
It's not just going on in seattle. People are getting taxed left, right and centre all over the place. I done an extra shift at work and got an extra £53.Because of that, my council tax payment for next month increased by just over £56. It actually cost me money to go and do an extra days work. The company I work for and the council are better off and I am worse off. WTF?
Denver will slowly but surely be the economical capital of the USA.
Isn't it crazy how there's ton of homeless people in areas where politicians approve tons of big government policies?
That shouldn't be corporate problem to bail out local government issues.
The real problem is greedy people raising rents just because they can. Seattle and all of western Washington really should enact rent controls.
Around 4 years ago I decided to never accept work where I would have to interact with the City of Seattle again. My stress level dropped and my gusto for life returned. I use the term "government abuse" whenever I talk about the City of Seattle and their outrageous regulations and governmental review policies.