On Sat, 05 May 2018 11:25:25 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2018 05:21:08 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 6:31:22 AM UTC-5, John H wrote:
In 2003, Seattle declared itself a 'sanctuary city'. Now they have the third largest homeless
problem in the country. I think the article has it backwards. It seems like Seattle is trying to
punish Amazon for providing a lot of employment by charging Amazon $500 per employee. I sometimes
wonder how the 'news' comes up with its headlines. Faced with that kind of tax, Amazon is putting
expansion plans on hold. Sounds quite reasonable. I'd be looking at North Carolina or Arkansas!??

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...ob-fb-enus-894

I wonder how Seattle or let alone Washington state would like it if Amazon relocated elsewhere? It could happen.

This is a head tax on every worker in Seattle and Amazon is not the
only company rethinking operation in that city. California and now
Washington are rapidly becoming a place where there are only very rich
people and very poor people with the middle gutted out. This just goes
farther in that direction.

This would cost Amazon, with the 7000 new jobs, $26,000,000/year. That may be a drop in Amazon's
bucket, but it's a pretty big drop. I still can't figure why MSN attempts to portray Amazon as the
'bad guy'.