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Starbucks, Amazon hit back at tax to fight homelessness
Starbucks and Amazon hit back at tax to fight homelessness. - [image via: GeekWire/ YouTube screencap]
Starbucks and Amazon decided to fight against the decision to impose tax on corporations in Seattle to fight homelessness.
by Malek Sherif (article) and Margarita Danya (video)
Amazon is against new tax in Seattle - Video
After weeks of continuous meetings, the city council of Seattle has decided to impose a tax on the biggest firms based in the city, including Amazon and Starbucks, to raise enough money to face homelessness. Amazon, which is considered the city's largest employer, said that the decision would put future expansions in the region on hold. The city council voted for the tax unanimously, claiming that it will help raise $47 million to face the recent housing affordability problem due to the recent booming economy.
Reports by CBS News and the BBC provided all the information used in this article.
Local corporations claim such decisions will decrease the number of jobs. The vice president of Amazon said the firm remains anxious about the future and worries about the hostile approach of the city council when dealing with larger corporations. The vice president also questioned possible growth with the new tax burden. Starbucks accuses the city council of continuous spending and failing with no accountability.
Impact of the tax on Seattle's businesses
The tax will be imposed on corporations with more than $20 million in sales annually, roughly $275 annually for each employee. This means it will be imposed on 500 firms, including city-based corporations such as Starbucks and Nordstrom, a department store chain. It will also have an impact on technology giants such as Google, Apple, and Facebook, having a huge presence in Seattle.
Seattle's commerce chamber said that such taxes will not fix the problem. Also, Amazon has warned that imposing such tax will risk about 7,000 new jobs. Following the vote, Amazon announced it would build a new office tower as planned. However, they said that they now are evaluating whether to empty some space in the second office building to move the planned jobs elsewhere.
Big support for the council's decision
The long debate over who is responsible and should solve the housing problem was sparked by Seattle's economic growth with booming rent and an increase in homelessness. Also, advocates claim that the region placed third on the list of the highest number of homeless people in the United States, with a record of 169 homeless deaths last year. Some members of the council were disappointed that they couldn't get the votes needed to score a veto by the city mayor. Advocates say that businesses and corporations, who profited from Seattle's prosperity and took part in increasing income inequality, should give back.
The mentioned that other cities have imposed similar taxes, and also citing data that shows middle-class housing prices have skyrocketed to $820,000, and that more than 40 percent of renters are considered rent burdened, which means they spend about a third of their salary on housing.
Critics accuse the new tax of threatening the city's economy and driving away many jobs. Council members, who give a proposal on Friday (May 18) out of committee, want firms and corporations to pay about $500 per full-time employee annually.
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Thursday night, my wife and I visited the Castro for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival's Freedom of Expression Award, which goes to a Jewish filmmaker who has worked to preserve our freedoms. This year, the award goes to documentarian Liz Garbus, the maker of Girlhood, Bobby Fischer Against the World, and What Happened, Miss Simone? The event was centered on her latest work, The Fourth Estate (also named Reporting Trump's First Year: The Fourth Estate).
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The Fourth Estate shows the hard, seemingly unending work of journalism, and the difficulties of letting America know what's really going on. I give it an A.
The Fourth Estate is not a theatrical feature. It's episode 1 of a 4-part Showtime series. If you don't have Showtime, you get one more chance to see this first episode (subtitled The First 100 Days) on the big screen, at the Albany Twin, Wednesday August 1, 4:00.
After Thursday night's screening, Garbus came onstage for a Q&A with filmmaker Bonni Cohen (An Inconvenient Sequel) and the audience. Some highlights, edited for clarity and brevity:
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Leo J. Nowicki, właśc. Leon Nowicki (ur. 17 lutego 1904, zm. 15 września 1990) – amerykański inżynier pochodzenia polskiego, polityk Partii Demokratycznej, wicegubernator stanu Michigan.

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Urodził się na ziemiach polskich 17 lutego 1904 jako Leon Nowicki (źródło amerykańskie podało miejsce urodzenia Glecz). Ukończył studia uzyskując tytuł inżyniera.

Od 1933 do 1936 pełnił urząd komisarza (drain commisioner) hrabstwa Wayne w stanie Michigan. Zamieszkiwał w Detroit i był działaczem Partii Demokratycznej. 15 września 1936 został nominowany przez Partię Demokratyczną do ubiegania się o urząd wicegubernatora (lieutenant governor) stanu Michigan. 3 listopada 1936 wygrał w wyborach na to stanowisko pokonując kandydata Partii Republikańskiej, Lurena Dickinsona. Został pierwszym w historii Polakiem wybranym na urząd wicegubernatora. Stanowisko pełnił od 1937 do 1938. Ponownie został nominowany przez Demokratów 13 września 1938, po czym 8 listopada 1938 uległ w walce wyborczej z L. D. Dickinsonem. W 1948 pełnił mandat rady miejskiej Detroit.

Zmarł 15 września 1990. Został pochowany na cmentarzu Queen of Peace w Loxahatchee (Floryda).

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