Tax Political Correctness at 100% of income.
I guess the Seattle exodus is not fast enough for them.
This should speed things up.
The productive will simply leave Seattle
“Teresa Mosqueda”
Viva Teresa! Diversity is our strength.
Gonna be a lot of empty office building in and around Seattle, before long.
“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).
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?
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.
Whatever you tax, you get less of.
Whatever you subsidize, you get more of.................
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.
The trouble with morons (democrats and apparently the author of this egregious form of legalized plunder) is that they don’t know they’re morons. (Dunning Kruger) The moron first decides that people making more money don’t deserve it. Then looks for a way to steal it without the risk of getting shot or going to jail. Third she assumes that the rich will simply throw up heir hands and say yes - take my assets that I worked my ass off for. Easy solution is for them to move out of the jurisdiction. next is to take legal action. Third is to take condign second amendment action. This while being especially satisfying is probably a waste of time, since this moron presumably represents the attitudes of the morons who elected her and will just be replaced by another moron who thinks the same way.
These games have all been tried before! And, obviously, proponents never want to look at the locations where the schemes were tried.
The idea that Amazon/Bezos is “libertarian” is asinine. Leftists are so stupid with their definitions. All they have is cheap slogans and buzzwords for anything they are opposed too.
Lets look at it this way. Its like Robinhood. Except that Seattle’s Robinhood lives in a big mansion next to the big mansions of his merry men, the city employees and vendors. They take from the rich, and everyone else through sales tax and property taxes. Then they give a few coins to the poor. The rest stays in Robinhood’s pockets so he can buy another crystal chandelier for the mansion’s dining hall.
The City of Seattle is far richer than most cities. Its lucky to have large successful businesses move to the rainy corner of the country. And those business’ stay there because there is no income tax. As soon as that stops, you can expect an executive office for Amazon and Starbucks to be built just outside of Seattle. And if not there, then in Texas or Florida, two wealth states with no income tax.
Seattle’s good fortune to have such large profitable business’ has burdened it with a very expensive local government that feeds on the taxes and fees it generates from these companies.
KuhRayZee...
Leftist hack women run Seattle. How’s that holy diversity estrogen factor working out for them? Conservative women need not apply.
They should be honest and just call it the Envy Tax.
Yes, to echo the others, what the author means by “backward” state is that Washington doesn’t have a state income tax. The libs have tried one ploy after another over the decades to institute one, and anyone who believes this will only apply to “the wealthy” is impossibly naive. And what the author means by “potent” is that once in place it can be ratcheted however a money-hungry progressive government desires.