This is what oligarchy looks like.

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. "a lot of small companies would have paid the head tax"

That is a clear untruth.

You don't believe The Atlantic that its only for businesses making 20 million or more? Okay this is from the first article you linked to:

"Companies that have at least $20 million in revenue in the city of Seattle are subject to the proposed tax." I hope that clears that up for you. BTW if you want to criticize The Atlantic, where the Never Trumpers like Frum made their mark on that, The Seattle Times is no liberal bastion either, from Wiki:

The Seattle Times launched advertising campaigns in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna and a state referendum to legalize same-sex marriage. The newspaper's management said the ads were aimed at "demonstrating how effective advertising with The Times can be."[18] The advertisements in favor of McKenna represent an $80,000 independent expenditure, making the newspaper the third largest contributor to his campaign.



So according to your article a whole "dozens" of businesses were against it. That's not even a large percent of the 585 business affected. And that second link? Interviewing Dick's Drive-in? This is a business that is a big Republican donor. And I'll go out of my way to predict that the dozens of others complaining about the tax in the $20 million dollar club were also big Republican supporters.


https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/08/31/31651572/if-you-boycott-in-n-out-you-should-probably-boycott-dicks-too

Members of the Spady family, the longtime owners of your favorite cheap burger joint, have a long history of donating to candidates that those of you reading this right now might find... problematic. This includes (but is not limited to) Dave Reichert, the Republican Party of Washington State, Dino Rossi, and Mitt Romney

Here's a link to the same Seattle more left of center independent paper, with a story explaining the problem with Dick's and other Republican wealthy that call for charity to solve all the problems rather than government. (As they did in your linked video) Hint...its not reliable, and its totally unaccountable.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/05/07/26146953/dicks-drive-in-would-rather-not-pay-head-taxes-but-will-seattles-highest-earning-companies-pony-up-without-them


Also from the article you linked to, small business was not all against the tax (I'll bet these are mostly more Democratic friendly):

Some businesses have voiced support for the tax. In March, a letter signed by small-business owners and community groups said a tax on large businesses was the right approach to the homelessness crisis. “A business tax is the only option left, and taxing only the larger businesses will reduce the impact of these taxes on the cost of living in Seattle,” they argued.


This revolt was spearheaded by Amazon. With a threat to NOT hire 7000 workers if this went through.

Few other businesses have voiced specific plans to halt work on planned projects or to sublease office space they’d already claimed, as Amazon has — a move that implied the technology and commerce giant would add 7,000 fewer jobs in Seattle if the tax were implemented.

In fact the whole second half of your article is about how all the other major businesses affected had no plans to reduce workers, or stop expansion because of the tax. Of course they don't like it. No one said they would. And of course they'd co-sign the protest letter. But its Bezos that made the big threat, and other Republican friendly businesses that jumped on that bandwagon. If you want to defend that side of the argument, I guess its a free country.