Global Elites, Real Estate Money Laundering, and Political Cash

• 1:29:30All the prime real estate on the California coast and Puget Sound has been taken over by insanely wealthy powerful people.
• 1:30:28Foreign speculation and empty investment condos create cities where multi-million-dollar high-rises sit vacant—it's money laundering.
• 1:30:51Developers won't build cheap single-family homes when they can build expensive high-rises; that's the real housing crisis driver.
• 1:31:31Washington State has no income tax because it's unconstitutional, which is exactly why billionaires and Amazon chose to locate in Seattle.
• 1:31:43Jeff Bezos initially wanted to put Amazon headquarters on a Native American reservation for even more relaxed tax laws.
• 1:32:25Amazon opposed Seattle's proposed head tax so fiercely that Bezos threatened to halt construction and move the company.
• 1:32:57Seattle city council member Shama Sawant, a socialist, pushed the head tax and wants Amazon out of the city entirely.
• 1:33:39Sawant stood in front of the Bezos Balls screaming about workers' rights and a tax on Amazon while construction workers behind her chanted against the head tax.
• 1:34:14Socialists claim to fight for the working class, but the working class itself is saying no to their policies—that's identity politics.

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