Posted on 05/01/2026 1:35:33 AM PDT by Libloather
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson laughed and seemed to encourage the notion that millionaires could leave the state of Washington while discussing her support for a progressive tax during an interview earlier this month.
“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if — the ones that leave, like, bye,” she said, which prompted cheers and laughter from the audience at the Seattle University event, Seattle University Conversations, which took place on April 14.
Wilson was asked if she believed progressive taxes were an “easy” and “promising” solution to the tax climate in the area. She said she never thought they were easy, but said she was excited about the millionaire tax that passed in the state.
“In general, we still have the very regressive tax system, and my office is doing a lot of work to look at what our options are in terms of progressive taxation,” she said. “We do have more flexibility at the city, at the county, in terms of our taxing authority. And at the same time, I believe what I said before, which is that, it’s not good for Seattle’s business environment, for example, for the cost of doing business in downtown Seattle to be wildly out of step with, for instance, neighboring Bellevue,” she said.
Wilson said that she was looking at progressive tax options that don’t increase the cost of employing people in Seattle.
“We have a large structural budget deficit at the city that we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with in this upcoming budget cycle,” she added. “And my budget office, budget staff are hard at work trying to figure out both how we can use our revenue as effectively and efficiently as possible."
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I was at a Warehouse owners convention in Scottsdale this week - The business owners from Seattle were all planning to move - most to Arizona - some to Utah.
One guy already made plans to move after the Communist Mayor was elected.
It didn’t take long for New York’s governor to start begging the people she ran off to come back. My guess is that the west coast moron is dumber than the east coast moron.
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”
Winston Churchill, Perth, May 28, 1948.
I know three MDs who are moving. One headed to Florida, the other two to Arizona. Not just planning - bought property, transferred license, hired and closing out Seattle practices.
Benjamin Franklin said: "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"
I think we can safely (and happily) update that as follows:
"Nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and that elections do have consequences."
(Hat tip to Barack Obama and the voters in places like NY City, San Francisco and Seattle)
What the honorable member is saying is that he would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have. And what a policy. Yes. He would rather have the poor poorer provided the rich were less rich . . .
Margaret explained this philosophy years ago.
The millionaires and billionaires leaving blue states should forfeit half their income. They’re termites. The eat away at the foundation and then leave when it is about to collapse to avoid the consequences of their votes.
The local overseers of the poor system worked reasonably well in Vermont as well as the Vermont poor farms.
Then the racist, white supremacist Lyndon Baines Johnson and his democrat henchmen came along.
The woman sounds like a preppy freshmen college girl. Everything is “Like” this and that. She is not s serious thinker just playing a fantasy role.
Yes hope for wealth is equal to when your fingers brake through the toilet paper.
Wilson is a buffoon, and the voters of Seattle deserve her good and hard. Welcome to Commie Town folks. Enjoy!
How soon before she in on her knees to the Trump admin asking for a federal bailout? (which will be a NO).
Those “billionaires” that are being threatened in California with a huge “one time” (yeah, right) tax - are departing and so far have taken $1 trillion dollars with them out of the state.
Maybe the poster knows something we don’t. In this day and age, take nothing for granted. Remember, Crocodile Dundee hadda grab that trannie’s crotch to be sure.
“...children will govern them...”
Seattle folks who voted her in will shortly feel the pain of increased taxes to make up for the deficit those ‘millionaires’ paid.
Washington has a sales tax at 6.5%...but local governments can add around 4% to that.
The sales tax in Seattle is 10.55%
Commies HATE IT...because everyone has to pay their share.
They want to implement a progressive income tax on top.
It was the same thing when they used to raise cigarette taxes and then use the “projected” money in their budget.
Never mind that many people will buy them elsewhere or stop smoking and the “projected” money was never correct leaving a hole in the budget that they had to fill by raising more taxes.
These Communists and parasites never learn and they are taking over all over the US and we are going to be a communist country in the next 15 years or less if it is not stopped hard!
These Socialist mayors don’t give a hoot about the cities they are running. The idea is to get every major city to have a socialist mayor, then they will all collude to bring the rest of the country to its knees.
Commies think they are smarter than all the rest of us.
They are all wanna be dictators. With absolute control over their subjects.
its Seattle. Katie is probably not sure of that.
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