Jeff Bezos may in fact be a super villain, but right now he’s a super villain attacking the Left.
On the heels of pulling out of New York City because of the anti-cooperate progressives there, Amazon is doing sort of the same to Seattle.
Seattle’s Rainier Square will no longer be occupied by Amazon.
The company has nixed its plans to move into the 30-floor, 722,000-square-foot building, the company confirmed in a statement to Business Insider on Wednesday. GeekWire first reported the change after obtaining a flyer advertising the subleased space.
Amazon had originally planned to occupy the entire building, but it will now sublease the space.
“We are always evaluating our space requirements and intend to sublease Rainier Square based on current plans,” an Amazon spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement.
Nothing like leaving a major city with a partially empty building for a while.
Amazon hinted that this subleasing could come in a sort of threat in May 2018. At the time, Amazon was unhappy that the Seattle City Council passed a new tax, aimed at combatting homelessness, that would disproportionately affect companies with a large number of employees in the city.
Amazon said at the time that unless the council repealed the tax before it was enacted, it would halt all construction on Block 18 — another skyscraper it is building in the city — and sublease all of Rainier Square.
So all the smaller companies that sublet will not be subject to the homeless tax so the city will not collect the revenue that they wanted.
Either the city will fall short or change the tax to incorporate smaller business, like those subleasing, which will drive them out too.
It Amazes me that Amazon has become the company that throws its weight around saying “If you are going to be all progressive against us, we’re going to take our hundreds of billions of dollars and go away. Fuck you and your treasury.”
I think is is fantastic
Personally, I’d like to extend an invitation to Amazon to build HQ2 in Huntsville, Alabama.
The weather is nicer, we don’t have homeless shitting on the streets, and we won’t go all Progressive on you.
In the mean time, keep sticking it to progressive cities. It’s fun to watch.
The only problem with having Amazon move to Huntsville, is the number of Califoricator executive that will be imported and their willingness to use their clout to muscle “Red Flag” laws, and “Universal background checks” through the legislature. It is fun to watch the progressive cities who think corporations will roll over when they’re about to get shafted find out differently.
Based on Amazon’s response Seattle’s head tax on large employers is working only slightly better than Seattle’s ammunition tax. You remember the one where the city refused to say how much they collected because it was so far below projection.
Side note, perhaps Amazon should move to California
They did that in Colorado a decade ago. Threatened to leave the state if import sales tax was added to the books. Colorado’s economy still hasn’t recovered, even while the rest of the nation is doing great.
Yup it is fun. Like watchin millennials try to use a can opener.
“It Amazes me that Amazon has become the company that throws its weight around saying “If you are going to be all progressive against us, we’re going to take our hundreds of billions of dollars and go away. Fuck you and your treasury.”
Amazon Shrugged.
Wonder how this might affect other companies like the one I work for; we are currently manufacturing components for Blocks 19, 20 and 21 for erection in Seattle this and next year.
Them with the gold makes the rules.