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Stuck on Stupid: Seattle Approves Rich-Only Income Tax
Newser ^ | 7/11/17 | Rob Quinn

Posted on 07/11/2017 3:14:56 PM PDT by Renkluaf

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After having destroyed 5000 jobs with their "Fight for $15" campaign, the Seattle City Council is now giving a boost to all the local moving companies for those exiting the city limits.
1 posted on 07/11/2017 3:14:56 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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30,000 more people headed to Dallas/Ft Worth. Better get busy building them houses, homebuilders.


2 posted on 07/11/2017 3:16:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Really, an “exit tax” seems appropriate.

It would probably pass in a heart beat.


3 posted on 07/11/2017 3:16:56 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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When I moved from California to Seattle, I went to register my car and get Washington plates. Boy, did they sock it to me. The cost of the plates included having to pay sales tax on my car, which was several years old, as if it had been purchased in Washington. Most expensive plates I ever bought.


4 posted on 07/11/2017 3:28:46 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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Got a better Idea Let’s just tax the Democrats. Say 40% of their wealth..


5 posted on 07/11/2017 3:29:28 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: Renkluaf; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal

Don’t be near these cities when the collapse comes.

The liberals simply aren’t capable of figuring out what went wrong.


6 posted on 07/11/2017 3:34:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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“council approved an income tax that only applies to wealthy residents”

“a 1984 law bans cities and counties in the state from taxing net income”

laws don’t apply to leftists


7 posted on 07/11/2017 3:37:36 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Stuck on Stupid , the properties of Democrats.
8 posted on 07/11/2017 3:38:15 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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Seattle and Portland are in the process of becoming worse than the asylum by the bay.


9 posted on 07/11/2017 3:38:50 PM PDT by aquila48
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30,000 more people headed to Dallas/Ft Worth. Better get busy building them houses, homebuilders.

I own a rain gutter business in Dallas County. We're so busy, my wife and I are having to pull back the reins on expansion. Demand is hitting us harder than we can skillfully manage.

10 posted on 07/11/2017 3:45:14 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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??By a vote of 9-0, the council approved an income tax that only applies to wealthy residents, with the 2.25% tax starting at income above $250,000 for individuals and above $500,000 for married couples filing joint returns,<<

In King County, that ain’t “rich.” It is “head just above water.”


11 posted on 07/11/2017 3:46:00 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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I own a rain gutter business in Dallas County. We’re so busy, my wife and I are having to pull back the reins on expansion. Demand is hitting us harder than we can skillfully manage.


You need to borrow President Trump’s magic wand


12 posted on 07/11/2017 3:57:01 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: sparklite2

Maryland does the same thing!


13 posted on 07/11/2017 4:03:00 PM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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What I don’t get is the 250K single filer and 500K join filer thresholds: are they trying to promote marriage? Oh, wait, they’ve probably created new classes of “married” so that someone making $499K with a spouse named Vicky the Goat who makes $1, can avoid the tax.

Regardless, these stupid taxes aren’t on the “rich,” they’re always on those trying to get rich and thus holding them back. What possibly could Seattle do w/ $6,000 to benefit society that an individual making 250K can’t better decide what constitutes greater human happiness? Aholes.


14 posted on 07/11/2017 4:07:05 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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Liberals never learn: You get less of what you tax, and more of what you subsidize.


15 posted on 07/11/2017 4:16:05 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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Statue of Lenin, Seattle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle


16 posted on 07/11/2017 4:17:03 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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Don’t you love it? Rich democrats taking it up the ass from other less rich democrats!


17 posted on 07/11/2017 4:36:25 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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Don’t you love it? Rich democrats taking it up the ass from other less rich democrats!


18 posted on 07/11/2017 4:37:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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I wonder how many of Seattle’s 20,000 wealthiest residents will move out before this illegal tax is overturned. Serves them right if they lose money over their obsession with envy.


19 posted on 07/11/2017 4:38:04 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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DC.
NYC.
Boston.
Chicago.
Seattle.
S.F.
L.A.

Glow!


20 posted on 07/11/2017 4:39:17 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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