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Amazon has paused development of its 17-story building in Seattle amid a debate over a city tax hike that would cost the e-commerce giant an estimated $20 million annually. "I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainer Square building," said Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesperson.
So what's it going to be, America: a democratic republic, or Trumpistan? A nation governed by the rule of law, or an oversized kleptocracy, whose maximum leader uses the decayed shell of government to punish his political enemies and reward friends and family? In another way of putting it, the United States government increasingly resembles a professional wrestling spectacle - all scripted feuds and melodramatic revenge plots enacted by a cast of alternately sinister and clownish figures skirting the edge of self-parody. According to The Washington Post, President Trump has personally intervened with the postmaster general in a fruitless effort to double the rates Amazon.com pays the U.S. Postal Service to ship packages.
Millions of merchants could be affected by the Supreme Court's decision in a case that could force online retailers to collect sales taxes in states where they have no physical presence. The case pits South Dakota against three companies, Wayfair, Overstock and Newegg.
As tax day looms, most of us are grumbling and griping about the joyless task of shelling out hard-earned wages to the Empire. Regardless of political perspective, the people are overwhelmingly aware of the fact that whatever taxes they're paying out, they're not getting a lot back.
President Donald Trump is livid with Amazon, attacking the company on Twitter and accusing it of taking advantage of the U.S. government to gain an unfair advantage over its competitors. President Donald Trump is livid with Amazon, attacking the company on Twitter and accusing it of taking advantage of the U.S. government to gain an unfair advantage over its competitors.
"Going on jihads with the power of the federal government against companies whose CEOs' private activity he doesn't find congenial - that's not the stuff of democracy," Summers said in an interview Thursday on CNN's "New Day. "That's the stuff of much more totalitarian countries."
The president attacked my reputation. It's time to set the record straight. - Jill McCabe, an emergency room pediatrician, is married to former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.
Axios is reporting that Trump wants to "go after" the e-commerce giant, citing five sources who have talked about Amazon with him. Trump has discussed altering the company's tax treatment because several of his friends told him Amazon is hurting their businesses and "killing shopping malls and brick-and-mortar retailers," according to Axios.
President Obama has been out of office for 14 months now, but his ability - and that of his allies still in government - to steer gargantuan federal contracts to his friends seems not to have diminished. Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced it was looking to purchase cloud computing services for its 3.4 million users and their 4 million devices.
With unified control of both chambers of Congress and the presidency, the last thing voters might expect of Republican leadership is taking action to increase government's power to tax and regulate. But if the so-called Remote Transactions Parity Act , HR 2191, were to pass, that's exactly what would happen.
There are more than 40,000 Amazon employees in Seattle, stretching from South Lake Union to Amazon's Denny Triangle skyscrapers. Government-transparency advocates say the meeting between Seattle-area political leaders and the city's largest employer should be open to outsiders.
Stakes are high for President Donald Trump as he prepares to give his first State of the Union Address and is tasked with helping his party keep control of Congress in the midterm election. Veuer's Chandra Lanier has the story.
Amazon has begun briefing officials in Chicago and 19 other cities in the running for the company's HQ2 second headquarters on the next phase of the process, after announcing the 20 contenders last week. Amazon has begun briefing officials in Chicago and 19 other cities in the running for the company's HQ2 second headquarters on the next phase of the process, after announcing the 20 contenders last week.
Ammar Hammasho, a migrant from Syria who lives in Cyprus, kisses one of his four children after they arrived with their mother at a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia in the eastern Mediterranean island on Sept. 10, 2017.
The political hypocrisy of crony capitalism - touting market capitalism while making taxpayers fund corporate welfare - is a rare and unfortunate case of bipartisan consensus. Republicans openly embrace it, but many Democrats also fall prey to government-guaranteed corporate capitalism when they believe it to be politically expedient.
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When political consultant Cathy Allen and others learned the top four vote-getters in Seattle's mayoral primary race were women, she paused to think. "When was the last time Seattle had a woman mayor?" she wondered.