Good intentions. Good feelings. Unintended consequences.
Time for Seattle’s companies to move out!
Salt Lake City tried somting like this. They needed more money (as always) so they raised the parking meter rates. Turns our people don’t like to pay for parking so not only did the amount raised from parking meters not go up, it actually went down. And the shoppers? They stayed away so sales tax revenue went down too.
Liberals cannot do otherwise. They should all be given their own island and a lot of pot. No possibility of going back to the mainland. Ever.
You don’t want to be around when politicians go into a feeding frenzy. They are much worse than piranha and nowhere near as discerning
Please have your company in our city, and hire lots of local people, for which we will then punish you by taxing you extra for every single local person you hire.
Sincerely,
The Dumbest Economic Policy Since Property Tax Was Instituted
One of several reasons I moved from Seattle. They would tax the very air you breath if they could.
This just proves, once again, that EVERYTHING totalitarian socialist/communists wish to “redistribute” is produced by capitalism.
Totalitarian socialism/communism can only exist as a parasite of a capitalist host.
Once a parasite reaches critica mass, both the host and parasite die.
Just part of the Democrats plans to tax free enterprise into government control.
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Raising taxes or regulations to aid a struggling economy is like aiding a drowning man by handing him an anchor.
They’re not “fighting homelessness,” they’re manufacturing more.
These guys are the laughing stock.
Wreck economy, causing home prices to collapse, making homes affordable for everyone, ending homelessness. Problem solved! Of course, then there’s joblessness, but let’s solve one problem at a time, shall we?
Seattle’s answer to homelessness:
Hurt the economy.
Well, maybe that will lower housing prices.
All of my life I have been told :
DO NOT feed feral cats-—they will multiply.
What exactly is the difference with this ‘homeless’ problem ???
Businesses don’t pay tax. It’s an expense that is passed on to the consumer. This is a direct head tax and easy to calculate into their product/service pricing.
“Could”? Try “will”.
Although all nine Seattle City council people voted for this atrocity, he can be laid at the feet of one council member in particular: Socialist Kshama Sawant. That woman needs to be removed from the country with prejudice.