According to all of the cases dealing with the issue of “taxable situs,” the basic justification of a state’s power to tax property within its borders is that the property enjoys the “protections and benefits of the taxing state.”
The property in CHAZ certainly isn’t enjoying much protection or benefit from the State of Washington right now.
This is an utter disgrace. The mayor has simply ruined those proprietors. I hope she can be sued personally or jailed.