Amazon introduced they had been halting work on a tower they’re constructing because the Seattle Metropolis Council nears a vote on a brand new tax focusing on giant employers to handle homelessness and housing affordability. That is known as throwing your weight round. And why wouldn’t you? Chicago has already supplied, if Amazon chooses the Windy Metropolis for HQ2, to cede taxation authority to the Seattle agency. Seattle’s Metropolis Council is considering a tax on giant corporations in an effort to lift $75M to assist tackle the homeless downside. However Amazon is enjoying hardball, unwilling to pay for an issue they helped create.

Actually, Amazon? Actually?