She represents them to the federal government. She has no legal authority and really shouldn't have any political authority to override or influence decisions that state and city officials make. She is a federal officer, and the deal with Amazon was a city / state initiative.
Her speaking out against Amazon was her speaking out against something that is not within her sphere of competence or within her elected sphere of influence.
If I remember correctly, Peterson says that the Neo-Marxists followed up on the theories of postmodernism as a way to bring Marxist thought back into the academically-acceptable realm, and that led to where we are today. So, the author is slightly wrong in his description of Peterson's beliefs. He doesn't see Postmodernism as "thinly disguised Marxism". He see Neo-Marxism as having its roots in Postmodernism.
Do you have proof of this? What are these visible and documented ways?
I'm not certain I completely understand your argument. Basically every explanation of LVT that I've come across says that it will decrease the amount of blighted land, as a land-value tax increases the incentive for landowners to improve their land.
That quote is the exact reason that land needs to be taxed at a much higher rate than it's currently taxed. Notice I say "land", so that doesn't include anything built on that land.
The value of land is directly tied to the desirability of the land around it. Land in Manhattan is more valuable than land in the middle of South Dakota because of all the network effects of other people (and the government) building things in Manhattan.
Why should we want to tax income? If you tax something, you inherently affect the supply of it. I.e. taxing labor (income tax) will make people want to work less.
We need to implement a land-value tax, if simply because taxing land does nothing to change the supply of land. Unless America decides to invade Mexico anytime soon, the value of land will not change.
I see Georgism occasionally advocated for on Hacker News but I really wish I would see more discussion on it. IMHO, it is the only sensible tax and the most fair tax that economists have thought up.
I hope more people will research Georgism and start trying to spread the idea around. It's the only tax-system that comes anywhere close to closing up any of these loopholes.
Her speaking out against Amazon was her speaking out against something that is not within her sphere of competence or within her elected sphere of influence.