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You guys pretend to be staunch believers in social justice but when it comes down to actually participating in the deal, well, not so much.
You Starbucks, you flaunt your leftist agenda to the point where you make your entire company staff take a full day to provide them with racial sensitivity training because one store in the entire freaking nation followed procedure properly and asked two black men to leave because they weren't buying anything. They were just hanging out and using the restroom, which was against company policy. But they complained, went public and you caved like a Hamas cave along the Gaza border after being discovered by Israel.
But the far left city of Seattle's socialist policies have done the same thing to them that socialism has done to Venezuela, and now the city wants you guys to fork over some of your money, pay your "fair share" and you don't like that idea. It's really, really funny, never mind how ironic it is.
Yes, Seattle decided to raise taxes on their corporate residents in order to support their socialist programs of affordable housing and "homeless services."
Starbucks VP Drew Herdener lambasted the city for failing to practice fiscal restraint, and are punishing businesses for what is ultimately the city's failure.
No, it's socialism's failure and, like a good leftist company, you should be proud and happy to be able to contribute for "the cause" (aka, socialist programs).
"The city does not have a revenue problem--it has a spending efficiency problem," Herdener whined. "We are highly uncertain whether the city council's anti-business positions or its spending inefficiency will change for the better."
Welcome to the left-hand side of the aisle, Drew.
Amazon went in front of the city council complaining that Seattle was trying to push its responsibility for their homelessness problem onto corporations. Council member Lorena Gonzalez, in a moment of self-righteous indignation and false virtue signaling, tongue-lashed Amazon for their lack of compassion.
Neither Amazon nor Starbucks said that they wanted Seattle to deal with their self-inflicted homeless problem on its own, but said they were trying to explain to the local government officials that the proposed "head tax," which charges all Seattle-based corporations a $275 surcharge per employee per year, would ever lower the cost of Seattle housing to an "affordable" level for those living on the street. Also, the tax doesn't do anything to solve Seattle's transient problem as it was caused by the same socialistic policies that caused the problem in the first place (see Venezuela for more details).
In fact, in 2009, Seattle had to repeal a similar "head tax" when businesses went elsewhere to make their fortunes and Seattle got its collective head out of its collective nether regions. The city spent more on fighting a gun tax lawsuit than it collected in taxes.
Starbucks' CEO John Kelly, said in a statement to the media that the city can't even manage to care for the homeless it currently has. "If they cannot provide a warm meal and safe bed to a 5-year-old child, no one believes they will be able to make housing affordable or address opiate addiction," he warned.
The city had wanted to steal $500 per person for the "head tax." They've been planning this for about a year and on Monday night passed this taxation without representation bill and settled on $275 per person.
The mayor, Jenny Durkan, is a progressive Democrat [did you have any doubts?] and a big fan of taxing. She had previously announced that she will used the "revenue" (aka taxes) from Seattle's guns and ammo tax to fund research into the health issues around guns.
Guns don't have health issues.
Anyway, the "head tax" will supposedly raise $48 million per year, but only if large corporations agree to be part of this socialistic strategy that has a long history of failure, or if they refuse to add to the cost of doing business when they can easily go elsewhere.
Perhaps Seattle, like California, will attempt to celebrate the birthday of Karl Marx, but hopefully, large corporations will see through the fog of progressive policies.
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