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Business should pay its fair share in Seattle
From the article:
AFTER HOURS of public hearings and discussions, the Seattle City Council voted May 14 to approve a modified “head tax” on the largest corporations in the city to fund homeless services and new “deeply affordable” housing.
The tax is specifically designed to target Amazon, the largest company in Seattle, which fought the proposal tooth and nail.....
Other businesses followed Amazon’s lead, denouncing the tax as a “job killer.” They claimed to be concerned with homelessness, but opposed to “this tax” as a way of doing something about it. But every tax that’s proposed is denounced as the “wrong” tax. Business has never come up with a “right” tax to alleviate homelessness or the crisis in affordable housing.
The tax is specifically designed to target Amazon, the largest company in Seattle, which fought the proposal tooth and nail.....
Other businesses followed Amazon’s lead, denouncing the tax as a “job killer.” They claimed to be concerned with homelessness, but opposed to “this tax” as a way of doing something about it. But every tax that’s proposed is denounced as the “wrong” tax. Business has never come up with a “right” tax to alleviate homelessness or the crisis in affordable housing.
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2018/05/21/business-should-pay-its-fair-share-in-seattle
It is obvious that the rich do not want to pay any taxes whatsoever. Thye want a plantation style economy composed of migrant workers who would wait by the big house for the Master to come out each day to announce that there is work for the lucky few serfs.