{"id":165238,"date":"2018-05-10T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=165238"},"modified":"2018-05-10T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T00:52:19","slug":"labor-group-demands-felony-charges-against-amazon-for-opposing-seattles-job-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=165238","title":{"rendered":"Labor Group Demands Felony Charges Against Amazon for Opposing Seattle&#8217;s Job Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/10\/labor-group-recommends-felony-charges-ag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seattle&#8217;s city council is considering a 26-cent tax on every hour of employee work at companies grossing more than $20 million a year. The proposal, which is scheduled for a vote on Monday, prompted one of the city&#8217;s largest private employers, Amazon, to pause construction on a new office tower. The move was in character for a corporate giant known to play hardball with municipalities, for good and ill. But according to the union-backed group Working Washington, Amazon&#8217;s reaction is not just irritating; it&#8217;s felonious.<\/p>\n<p>The construction pause is &#8220;the sort of thing you might expect from a subprime mob boss lording it over a company town\u2014and that&#8217;s not just a metaphor,&#8221; says an open letter from the group to Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Working Washington claims &#8220;there is abundant evidence&#8221; that Amazon has broken a state law criminalizing threats against public officials aimed at affecting their votes or decisions. &#8220;We urge you to investigate and prosecute Amazon for this serious crime,&#8221; the group says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the problem with all those low-IQ people going to law school. A lot of them don&#8217;t listen in class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Seattle&#8217;s city council is considering a 26-cent tax on every hour of employee work at companies grossing more than $20 million a year. The proposal, which is scheduled for a vote on Monday, prompted one of the city&#8217;s largest private employers, Amazon, to pause construction on a new office tower. The move was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165239,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165238\/revisions\/165239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}