Seattle’s city council on Monday passed a new tax that will seek to raise money for housing and other needs from companies with the highest paid employees in the city, including Amazon. The passage of the JumpStart Seattle tax comes two years after the council repealed another tax on employers in the city under pressure from Amazon shortly after the council had approved the measure. The council...
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