The answer: blame and penalize successful businesses. Make them all mediocre. Via the Economic Policy Journal:
The wacky left has made it so onerous for businesses to operate in Seattle that Amazon is looking for a more friendly business environment for a “second” headquarters.
This, naturally, sent Kshama Sawant, a socialist Seattle city councilwoman, into a rage.
She issued a statement comparing Amazon to Boeing. She said billion dollar firms hold the region “hostage” for tax breaks. The solution, Sawant says, is to “unionize and to take these behemoths into democratic public ownership.”
Thanks to comments like that, Boeing has moved its headquarters to Chicago. Is it any wonder that Amazon is looking for a “second” headquarters where they won’t be threatened with “democratic public ownership.”
“Today’s announcement from Amazon should come as no surprise, as the city has continued to implement policies that create an environment that is at best unfriendly, and at worst, outright hostile toward the needs of our largest employers,” said Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Maud Daudon.
The latest Seattle madness is a new tax that will charge 2.25 percent on per person income earned above $250,000 in the city—in a state where such a city income tax is specifically prohibited!
“We will no longer tolerate a system that buries poor people in taxes,” Sawant said on the day the tax was passed by a unanimous vote of the Seattle City Council.