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Anti-Amazon Graffiti Increasing In Seattle (with Photos) (geekwire.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader reifman writes: If you're eagerly awaiting your city's selection for HQ2, you may want to check out GeekWire's photo gallery of anti-Amazon graffiti images from around Seattle. Animosity towards Amazon has grown in the wake of its threats over a per head tax on employees, which the city council passed and then repealed shortly after. The tax would have increased the budget for services for our 12,000+ homeless. Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos also fought the state income tax on the wealthy in 2010.
For watering Brazil? What it's doing in the US is a mystery, though.
Ezekiel 23:20
This has already been resolved. Amazon announced this week that they're siting HQ2 in our town here in Vermont. Being that Vermont is a third world country the wages and cost of living are lower which will save Amazon billions of dollars even without Vermont's President Snelling giving them any tax breaks. In turn
Amazon has promised to bring Vermont into the 21st century by upgrading it's information highway bring the Internet to all Vermont citizens.
Amazon will instantly become the #1 employer in Vermont. The minimum wage in Vermont is $11/hr but Vermont makes exceptions for robots who are employed on many dairy farms and pig farms where they milk the sows and cows.
You may be wondering about cows vs sows. Vermont is a world leader in the production of maple syrup and milk. The secret on the milk, which allowed Vermont to beat out Wisconsin, is that sow pigs have 14 to 18 teats so they can easily produce more milk than cows and sows produce twice as much butter fat in the milk making for more butter and cheese.
One of my favorite bands is Rage Against the Machine. They are very anti-corporate, just like these folks. I just bought their latest album on Amazon for $18.98. Free shipping too! I like to be different and fight the power!