The Patriot Post® · Video: Seattle's 'Amazon Tax'
Seattle’s City Council passed a new tax Monday1. 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 Councilwoman Ksharma Sawant, a member of the Socialist Alternative party.
Seattle homelessness has doubled in the last 8 years. Politicians blame a shortage of “affordable” housing, but John Stossel says2 that the politicians’ own bad policies helped create that shortage.
Stossel has more here3.
Links
- https://patriotpost.us/articles/55994-jobless-in-seattle
- https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/05/15/seattles-amazon-tax
- https://patriotpost.us/opinion/55985-amazon-fights-back