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Anti-Amazon Graffiti Increasing In Seattle (with Photos) (geekwire.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-spray-mocking dept.

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Amazon has grown in the wake of its threats over a per head tax on employees, which the city council passed and then repealed shortly after.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.

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  1. Services? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The tax would have increased the budget for services for our 12,000+ homeless.

    Not really. There was no plan in place to pass the tax revenues on to the needy. A few ideas about building city subsidized housing with an income qualification level of 125% of the neighborhood median (read: subsidies for hipster condos). Most of the revenue would have disappeared into the general fund. And be a camel's nose under the income tax tent.

  2. Because OF COURSE it is! by Chas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Amazon is an enormous concentration of wealth.

    Never mind that it done through hard labor and smart business practice.

    There's always going to be people envious of that.

    And there's always people who think they deserve a "cut" of it. Even if they don't.

    And, considering the fact that Seattle is every bit as crazy socialist as the bastions in Commiefornia, and it's no surprise.

    Remember, the money YOU earn is not YOUR money. It's OUR money...comrade...

    Fuck these people and the horse they rode in on.

    --


    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!
  3. its not the corporations... by sdinfoserv · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a Seattle-ite myself, the “homeless problem” here has little to do with Amazon. It is directly in the laps of a socialist City Council and liberal voters who roll out the red carpet with freebee’s for homeless, (like doctor staffed heroin shoot up sites with free needles) a hobbled police force that is not allowed to enforce laws, arrest drug deals, site or tow broken down vehicles, a “no chase, no confront” policy towards shoplifters, homeless encampments that allow drug use. And the list goes on and on. Meanwhile working citizens see taxes skyrocket for various “studies” and $12 million dollar per mile bike lanes