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1. Tax Amazon, great in its own right regardless of the reason. 2. How do you provide for people without money? 3. Deserve your re-election by serving the poor and vulnerable at the expense of mind-blowing historically unprecedented wealth.

Great example here of managed democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_democracy

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More accurately, tax Amazon and over half a thousand other employers in the city. And spend money on social services that don't have a particularly good track record of eliminating the social ills they are intended to solve. Politicians made their own judgement as to whether or not this would be beneficial to their chances of reelection.

Immediately concluding that because a government didn't pass a new tax, the government is a de-facto autocracy is extremely reductive.

They did pass it, after months of review.

They repealed it a day after the announcement that they were doing so.

Seattle is a company town now.

deserve your reelection by nominally “serving the poor” while wasting loads of tax dollars and throwing good money after bad to retain a city council seat, you mean

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