“But if your neighbors have a majority and are stupid you must find a way through it and/or eventually leave.”
I live in Tacoma, about a half hour south of Seattle, at 2 a.m., on the I-5 corridor. I have watched business close up here for a number of years as taxes, zoning, and service policies controlled by King County have destroyed the state to include crime problems in the main shopping areas in Seattle from homeless the idiots have invited to come here. But leaving is not an option for everyone. Sometimes you have to see things fail until they become an issue that can’t be kicked down the road as these problems get more numerous in the state every day. But until it bites them on the arse, they will continue to figure out ways to harm people for their gain until their own kind put a halt to it at the polls. And that’s the problem you speak of.
But just to help you out on how far it went, the state didn’t tax Boeing for their trillions of dollars of sales for over 30 years, and protected them every way they could. But when they were forced to start taxing them, Boeing got out of here so fast they sucked out the O2 with them. Washington, at one time, was the headquarters for eight Fortune 500 companies: Boeing, Costco, Weyerhaeuser, Microsoft, Paccar, Nordstrom, Safeco, and Washington Mutual. But when the taxes sarted to go, that changed. And when it hurts enough, they’ll have to rethink their idiocy.
rwood
Yup. My wife’s cousin lives in eastern Washington state on the Idaho border. She has told us the horror stories.