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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seattle conservatives are trying to say them leaving is because of liberal politics. Which I guess may be partly true. Fair wages, unionization, keeping corporate overreach checked, allowing competition.

So yeah, if Starbucks is against those, then bye Starbucks

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its the same exact goddamned thing as Boeing.

Another state will pay us more money and give us more tax breaks to build or be based there.

That's it.

Everything else is traitorous yapping noises.

And understand that 'state will pay us more money' means... with their taxes, or debt their taxes will have to pay one way or another.

That's what a 'business friendly environment' is.

It means the government rapes taxes out of the people and gives them to people and organizations that already have a stupendous amount of money.

FTA:

Tennessee is rolling out the red carpet for Starbucks corporate executives, both rhetorically (at a fawning press event in Nashville) and financially with a whopping $30 million incentive package financed by state taxpayers to benefit the 119-billion-dollar company.

...

In 2001, Boeing moved its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago. In 2003 Boeing persuaded (blackmailed) the Washington state legislature to get a $3 billion tax incentive to keep manufacturing in Washington state. What did they do with that tax incentive? They built a new production facility in South Carolina, a state storied in racism, slavery, and union-busting. In 2013 Boeing received $8 billion in Washington state tax incentives and promptly laid off thousands of employees in our state.

Its rape, mass societal financial rape, and we need to start using that terminology, or the rape will continue and get much, much worse.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

I'm fine with the term just as I'm fine with killing rapists