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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Last week, the Seattle City Council approved a payroll tax
on Amazon, city's largest employer, the company that's responsible for
creating more jobs than any other business in that town.
After passing the tax, councilwoman Kashama so Want dared Amazon
CEO Jeff Bezos to try to stop the Amazon taxt.
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She warned him that if he objects, he'll lose, and
that was just for starters. Listen carefully to what the
selected official said to her city's largest job creator. We
are coming for you in your rotten system, she said
to Bezos. We're coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent,
utterly bankrupt system of capitalism, this police state. We cannot
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and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace
it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy,
and equality, a socialist world. Mr Bezos, if you expected
gratitude for building a business that employees, hun that thousands
of people in business, that turned Seattle into a techno magnet,
forget it. These leftists, these elected officials, your elected they
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hate you, they hate your business, they hate your success.
And make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, leftist will not
stop until they turn America into what Seattle is becoming
a dangerous, lawless socialist heellhole. Why Amazon stays there mid
all this hate? I really don't know.