Remember this?
Coincidence? I think not.
Yet numerous useful idiots on our side still want the GOP to be associated with the odious international "red" movement. The media is quite pleased with this development.
Posted on 06/17/2018 3:09:10 PM PDT by Angels27
Don’t believe the hype that “Amazon killed the Seattle head tax,” the new levy that the city recently passed on businesses to fund an affordable-housing initiative. The truth behind the city council’s stunning reversal—repealing the tax by a 7-2 vote, just four weeks after passing it 9-0—is that Seattle citizens have erupted in frustration against the city’s tax-and-spend political class that has failed to address the homelessness crisis, despite record new revenues. As recently as a few years ago, it seemed as if Seattle voters largely viewed our hyper-progressive city council as a harmless oddity in an otherwise tolerant, thriving, liberal city. But times have changed. Now, according to recent public polling, 83 percent of Seattle voters are dissatisfied with how the council has addressed homelessness, 65 percent believe that the local government hasn’t used new tax revenues effectively, and 63 percent believe that the city has enough money to solve the problem but isn’t pursuing the right policies. Progressives have tried to paint the anti-head tax campaign as corporate astroturfing, but beneath the surface, it’s being driven by this broader shift in public opinion. In just two weeks, the No Tax on Jobs campaign, led by local businesses, recruited 2,000 volunteer signature-gatherers and collected nearly 46,000 signatures—more than double the amount required to qualify as a ballot measure. When I spoke with one of the volunteers in the liberal Fremont neighborhood, he told me: “I’m retired and I wanted to volunteer for the cause. I think the tax is a bad idea: if you tax something, you get less of it. I’m going to collect two pages of signatures and then go home.”
Cook County Ill passed a tax on sugary drinks. Voter outrage scared them into repealing it. No one likes taxes that THEY themselves have to pay.
But I don’t see this as a tax that would spark similar outrage (even though it should as it could have lead to Amazon raising prices). I think clearly when they realized Amazon would cancel expansion in the city and they and other companies would consider leaving altogether and new companies would never move in, they buckled.
red state vs. blue state might have been by chance
However, I am the proud owner of the complete Ancient Aliens DVD box sets through 2017 and I must tell you————
There are no coincidences.
Not when one particular color is inextricably linked to a specific ideology. They didn’t call Communists “Blues.” The absurdity of calling them that now is beyond the pale.
Yup.
It was deliberately done.
Liberals do not fix problems; they monetize them. If you elect liberals to address homelessness, they will spend money until you have even more homelessness. Then they will need money to address that, all the while blaming someone else.
“Cook County Ill passed a tax on sugary drinks. “
Which everyone knew was a tax aimed at African Americans.
Remember this?
Coincidence? I think not.
Yet numerous useful idiots on our side still want the GOP to be associated with the odious international "red" movement. The media is quite pleased with this development.
The ideology doesn’t dominate the state. It dominates the Seattle area. There is a whole lot more to the state.
I would like to think that MAGA has something to do with it.
But politically it does. Other than the theft of Rossi’s Gubernatorial win, no Republican has been inaugurated as Governor since 1981, no Republican has won reelection since 1972. No Republican Senator elected since 1994. Far-left moonbats in control for 34 years in a row without interruption. The Black Hole of Puget drags down the rest of the normal GOP-leaning state.
Yup. Seriously, I want to deliver a slap to every person who uses that “Red” bull$hit to term our side. Enough is enough.
I have never Facebooked other than checking my visually impaired Father’s account for him so I’ve never seen any red equal signs, thanks for that information.
It is not personal. I live in Oklahoma and we have plenty of dbag-Seattle types. The difference is if we ever had anyone like Sawant running around there would be a relentless response in opposition. Nothing dangerous, just a mountain and waves of opposition at any event—public or private.
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