Kshama Sawant wants city to double proposed head tax.
If Amazon can afford to spend billions on a second headquarters, it can surely afford to pay a head tax.
That was the sentiment from Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who wants the proposed tax on the wealthiest 10 percent of businesses in the city to be increased from $100 per employee to $200.
Council members Mike O’Brien and Kirsten Harris-Talley proposed a head tax for approximately 2,200 businesses who gross receipts value is at least $5 million per year. They say a business would pay an additional 5 cents an hour per employee to help “alleviate Seattle’s homelessness crisis.”
The two proposed the tax during the city’s budget process. If approved, the tax would have an effective date of early 2019. It would raise between $20 million and $25 million each year, according to O’Brien.
But why not up the ante? Sawant says.
Assuming the tax was increased from $100 to $200 per employee, Sawant says the city could raise at least $50 million a year. Amazon would pay about $8 million a year; not much when you consider the company’s yearly revenue, she says.
“That is less than six parts in thousand of one percent of their 2016 revenue,” she said. She added the fractions are “so small, it doesn’t even make sense. “It’s 1/625th of the money they … intend to use to build a new campus.”
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Parasites and Leftists, but I repeat myself… always come up with creative “reasons” to steal someone else’s hard work and revenue!
Keep this idiot on your side of the state please, we don’t want her type in Eastern Washington.
Building each homeless person a home would work too…..
Another dipshit foreigner allowed to slither into the country and attach herself like a tapeworm in the belly of a host!
Hey, the Seattle Stoopids deserve her. Have a ball, folks. You’re going to get the crap taxed out of you! ;^)
Why do all Lefty politichicks look like they should be stirring a cauldron?
her and george takai should join forces. the federation could use her too. http://www.dailywire.com/news/23351/george-takei-tweets-socialist-dreams-fictional-hank-berrien?utm_medium=email&utm_content=110917-news&utm_campaign=Actengage#
Lol. Just wait until they get the legislative power to just up and seize businesses for the common good. I’m sure that’s percolating through the swiss cheese of their minds.
..and just what justification does a city have to tax someone’s head?
“That is less than six parts in thousand of one percent of their 2016 revenue,” she said.
And not a penny of it belongs to you, Kumquat.
What if it’s bad head?
I guess head tax is something different than what I thought.
How would $50 million alleviate Seattle’s homeless crisis? The same policies that contributed to this homeless crisis will still exist, only the city will have $50 million more to waste on things that won’t help at all. However, I do believe this waste of money will help alleviate the homeless situation in other areas as these folks will find a way to get to Seattle.
I am, of course, assuming that a head tax will raise the money the politicians say it will, but in reality it won’t because people will find a way to avoid it. Socialism doesn’t work anyway, and fails quicker when people have a chance to leave or can elect not to go there in the first place.
Two pronged solution: feed the homeless to the hungry.
Kshama has not considered that Amazon’s second HQ might be intended to be its only HQ in the near future. She’d better be figuring how to implement a confiscatory corporate exit tax.
You know, Amazon will just leave if you keep messing with them.
I bought one of those Kshama Dingbats ASOTV.
The thing didn’t perform as advertised. Left streaks on my car.
Honestly. I have no pity for those that voted for a Kshama. You deserve the idiocy volunteered for.
Hey dragon lady. Amazon just built a shit ton of office and warehouses in Las Vegas area. They could just call Nevada their new HQ and be done with it.
“Two pronged solution: feed the homeless to the hungry.”
“Sawant Green is People!”
I can’t remember who said this last night on Pinko’s radio show, but conservatives DO need to move to red states and leave the free-spending Left to marinate in their own stupidity. It won’t take long before Seattle and King County is completely bankrupt.
@BBrad ~ there’s no such thing as ‘bad head’ … 😛
This Soylent Green is delicious. It tastes so young and impudent.
There’s a technically homeless guy in my D.C. neighborhood. Big strapping healthy black guy, looks like a 60ish Paul Robeson, ex Marine, stays fit. Sleeps out mostly, with a couple nights a week at a city Shelter for the hot showers.
Nice, intelligent guy. He moves around the country and has an itinerary. Spring and fall in DC. By early December he’ll be in Florida, south of Tampa. Summers he likes Maine. Nice churches there. He enjoys National Forests.
The homeless are very mobile. Thanks to public libraries, they’re online.
Whenever a city hangs out a new improved Homeless Welcome sign, they come.
Priest – “Mother Superior, what is ‘head’?”
Mother Superior – “Same as downtown. Five dollars.”
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True, but some is better than others, and certainly better than none.
I hope Amazon splits. When the Semi Conductor Capital Equipment companies started expanding out of the Silicon Valley they expanded into Seattle and Austin. It wouldn’t take much for Lam or Amat to pull up stakes and leave. I hope this idiot kicks it up to $400.00 a head.
The people who are HORRIBLE AT RUNNING A BUSINESS are the ones running the business of government.
They raise the cost of the product, but the customer has no other choice but to buy it, or cancel their life and move away.
We shouldn’t allow someone born in a foreign country to hold elected office. 200 years ago we couldn’t do that be we can damn sure do it now.
On our side, what would we lose? John McCain and Ted Cruz?
How many homeless in Seattle? 10,000? Buy each one a one-way bus ticket to San Diego. $100 each. I just saved Seattle $49M.
Move the Amazon headquarters and watch that bitch slink away.
Maybe she thinks no big business has ever sneaked out of a state under the cover of darkness without telling any tax collectors of their intentions beforehand.
Some of us remember a team called the Baltimore Colts doing just that, though.