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2023-11-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to move to Miami from Seattle

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Posted by Fred 2023-11-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Only if you stop funding the far left shit that turned Seattle into a hellhole. Otherwise you can fuck right off back to your utopia.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-11-04 00:14|| 2023-11-04 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 ...There's another article out there that points out that when Washington state passed its rich peoples' tax, they were expecting $3B and change - and Bezos would have been coughing up between twenty and forty-five percent of that.

I don't really have any hope that the politicians have enough self-awareness to admit what happened, but it will be fun to watch them twist in the wind.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-11-04 06:15|| 2023-11-04 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Comments in Seattle Times following this announcement were hilarious; predictably about paying no taxes, running away from societal responsibilities, etc. what hasn’t been said, as the lovely Mrs. Ret. pointed out over dinner, are the forthcoming secondary and tertiary effects: who doesn’t think relocation offers have been or will be made to the Amazon top dogs? And gradually the center of operations will also move south? One only needs to look at Boeing; only manufacturing, or more accurately, assembling remains; all other executive functions are gone as well as selling off of real estate. Their footprint in WA state has shrunk quite a bit, and I suspect that as soon as the Navy P-8 build is complete, all 737 production will shift to Everett and the Renton waterfront property also sold.
Sorry about the divert, but I think Amazon will be a sequel to this.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-11-04 07:00|| 2023-11-04 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Gotta love a very good string of predictive analysis (PA) based on money trails. No 'Sea Story' here.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-04 07:04|| 2023-11-04 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, after the 1st and 2nd Amendments are wiped out, "freedom of movement" will be the next progressive target.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-04 07:43|| 2023-11-04 07:43|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ How are we coming with those EV charging stations ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-04 07:45|| 2023-11-04 07:45|| Front Page Top

#7 How are we coming with those EV charging stations ?

Are you discussing the stations that actually work or just the overall aggregate of installations?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-04 07:56|| 2023-11-04 07:56|| Front Page Top

#8 How indeed...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-04 08:13|| 2023-11-04 08:13|| Front Page Top

#9 ...reminds me of the old Oil Embargo days.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-11-04 08:16|| 2023-11-04 08:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, well, Washington just passed a 7% capital gains tax and was threatening a 1% wealth tax. Bezos took the hint.

Posted by KBK 2023-11-04 19:27|| 2023-11-04 19:27|| Front Page Top

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