Call it the ‘boss tax:’ Seattle finally finds a potent way to tax the rich

Seattle Times ^ | 7/3/2020 | Danny Westneat

[Zenyatta]

Article tries to justify what will end up costing lower and middle class citizens jobs. But that's not talked about...

[montag813]

Big Boss is deeply saddened

[Rurudyne]

Tax Political Correctness at 100% of income.

[joshua c]

I guess the Seattle exodus is not fast enough for them.

This should speed things up.

[Jewbacca]

The productive will simply leave Seattle

[dljordan]

“Teresa Mosqueda”

Viva Teresa! Diversity is our strength.

[Redleg Duke]

Gonna be a lot of empty office building in and around Seattle, before long.

[aquila48]

“Later, in 2022, it shifts most of it to the original purpose, which is housing for the poor and homeless.”

Which will bring in more poor and homeless (aka, druggies).

[Phillyred]

Gonna need a big fat exit tax.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Instead of tilting at windmills to try to tax wealth or high incomes, which is legally questionable in our backward state, this plan instead puts a levy on high employee salaries and compensation packages."

And any such costs will be passed on to consumers. More importantly, the tax revenues that are gained will do NOTHING to improve the lot of minorities; they never do, they just expand and enrich the bureaucracy.

As for Danny Westneat, he's a personal friend of my sister, who worked at the Seattle Times. Like a broken clock, he is right about one-twelfth of the time.

[Yo-Yo]

Not that I agree with the concept, but what is wrong with a simple income tax for wages earned within the city limits?

I have to pay City tax for the income I earn from my employer, even though I don’t live in said city.

The rate is 1/2% if you live in the city, 1/2% if you work in the city, and add the two to come up with 1% if you both live and work in the city.

That’s too tough for Seattle?

[SecondAmendment]

And then the woke masses will follow and infect the rest of the state ...

[cuban leaf]

My son-in-law has a company with just under 40 employees in Seattle. With the lockdown he is now going “full WFH”. He is now looking for a new place to live, outside of Washington state, and said he’ll keep his Seattle employees but will hire the rest in other tier two or three areas.

He’s done with Seattle.

My other two daughters left in the last two years. One to Louisville and the other to Phoenix. And my best friend is selling their house and moving out here to either Tennessee or Kentucky by us.

I just spent three weeks there (My father passed and I was there the last days and after the funeral). The traffic, even during the CV19 crap, is intolerable.

[cuban leaf]

It’s an income tax. They will need to change the state constitution as step one.

[j.havenfarm]

Wow. If you were within five feet of the author I’ll bet you could literally feel the fever radiating off of him. It all makes perfect sense to someone as super smart as he is. Unlike the retrograde dolts that everyone else is.

[M-cubed]

Gonna be a lot of empty office building in and around Seattle, before long. <<

Not a problem!!!......They can get all their lost population back in no time by turning the office buildings into to rent controlled apartments for the homeless..they will draw people from every state in the Union!!

[Red Badger]

Whatever you tax, you get less of.
Whatever you subsidize, you get more of.................

[cgbg]

This is too easy—any corporation with an IQ above room temperature will locate corporate headquarters (and any other high paid employees) outside the city limits.

The high paid jobs can locate anywhere in the country—or world for that matter.

[Yo-Yo]

It’s an income tax. They will need to change the state constitution as step one.

Thank you. That point wasn't made clear in the article, and as a non-Washingtonian, I didn't know that income taxes were unconstitutional in your state.

[teeman8r]

it will increase. it always does. and with less resistance than the installation...

it was only 1 %... 2 % 4 % 8% 18 %