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Reap what you sow, Europer. Seriously though, is GDPR compliance that difficult? What does a news site have to do to comply?
That's actually the worry. What are they doing with your data that they don't to be transparent about?
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> Expanding their offices puts costs on existing city residents. It's all well and good that tens of thousands of new units to house these workers are being built, but those units also require extra infrastructure funding. Property taxes and permits are designed to raise the funds needed to pay for infrastructure. Amazon pays them. According to the Seattle Times (1): > Amazon entities that own Seattle property are th…
> Property taxes and permits are designed to raise the funds needed to pay for infrastructure. Amazon pays them. According to the Seattle Times (1): The share of property taxes that Amazon, and its employees pay do not cover the costs of building out new infrastructure to support them. It's basic mathematics. Let's say that you and four of your friends live in a 5-bedroom house. Let's say that you all pay an equal sh…
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> Property taxes and permits are designed to raise the funds needed to pay for infrastructure. Amazon pays them. According to the Seattle Times (1): The share of property taxes that Amazon, and its employees pay do not cover the costs of building out new infrastructure to support them. It's basic mathematics. Let's say that you and four of your friends live in a 5-bedroom house. Let's say that you all pay an equal sh…
Seattle did not fall from the sky. These arguments were presumably valid at every phase of its growth. What’s special about now?
As density increased, the infrastructure we need today is more expensive, even if the cost of construction stayed the same.
Before all land within city limits was developed, the city could charge large fees for subdivisions. Generally, American city infrastructure is financed by such fees. There aren't very many subdivisions happening anymore.
Lastly, the rate of population growth was slower, and did not create a housing crisis. All of the above can be stomached through when you don't have exploding rents and homeless populations -despite the unprecedented levels of residential construction the city's seeing.