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2018-05-15 -Land of the Free

Seattle City Council votes 9-0 for scaled-down head tax on large employers

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Posted by 746 2018-05-15 02:29|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Values, Seattle has a priority of Values. They think like Detroit and they smell like Chicago.

So they tax the people who will simply avoid doing business there in the future..and move to someplace where they CAN do business.

And you can walk in human feces with Leadership that doesn't live in the practical real world and doesn't think ahead and plan prosperity I know, lets all be hippies and smoke boo and just sit here and look at the sunset and be cool.

Let's move to Seattle and wear flowers in our hair and vote democrat. Taxes are for Scmucks , sock it to the man. The CORPORATIONS are the Enemy, dude. Down with capitalism and let's all sing Kumbaya.

Those kind of values.

Posted by Gloter Ulusoger7010 2018-05-15 07:04|| 2018-05-15 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 It's always easy to spend other people's money, until the long arm of taxation loses it reach (move East young man). Punishing the productive and rewarding the non-productive to flash your virtue will not work.

The poor are not virtuous in any by their condition. Poverty is primarily founded upon four tenets -
Doing alcohol and drugs
Procreating before you have the ability and means to put a roof over your own head, food on your own table and clothes on your own back
Blowing off whatever educational opportunities you are given
Doing the same self limited behaviors your parents, their parents and their parents did to remain poor.

Its as much a self inflicted wound as any outside factor. There is no virtue in that.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2018-05-15 07:31|| 2018-05-15 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 There's a lot of unused real estate in East Boston, Amazon. Just sayin'...

Posted by Raj 2018-05-15 09:30|| 2018-05-15 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 In the local area a nearby hamlet was incorporated, or so I was told, by a wealthy horse breeder. He made sure that the bigger towns in the vicinity couldn't annex his ranch and start charging him sales tax on his race horse transactions -- by having his own town with a well-picked set of officials.
Maybe Amazon should "invest" in its own suburb of Seattle in easy commuting distance....

Posted by magpie 2018-05-15 09:53|| 2018-05-15 09:53|| Front Page Top

#5 is Microsoft out of these guys tax district? Boeing?

If I were Amazon I'd not only halt future building but start to consider moving all of my operations out of Seattle.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-15 10:40|| 2018-05-15 10:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Saw a comment about this that stated "In 5 years the city council will wonder what happened to the revenue."

Way to incentivize companies not to do business in Seattle or to move if possible.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-05-15 10:54|| 2018-05-15 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 "They are dying on our streets today because there is not enough shelter" and affordable housing.

I think the council member's idea of affordable housing is somewhat different from mine. I would incarcerate vagrants, put them in a tent city somewhere out in the boondocks surrounded by concertina wire. There would be food, water and porta potties but no drugs or alcohol. It would not be comfortable. Actually, you could think of it more as punishment than housing. The unfortunates would get a month long stay at this facility for their first vagrancy offense. The second offense would result in a six month stay and the third offense would get them a year.

IMHO, the good people of Seattle and their employers are not obligated to provide housing for every loser in the whole wide world who wants to live there. If you can't afford Seattle, try your luck somewhere else.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-05-15 11:02|| 2018-05-15 11:02|| Front Page Top

#8 magpie, Disney did the same thing in Flordia. Bought up enough swampland that Disneyworld is its own county. Probably saves a fortune on the bribes in the long run.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-15 12:26|| 2018-05-15 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Microsoft is mostly based in Bellevue, not Seattle.

I work in Seattle and when I take the bus in I see tents after tents setup under just about every overpass. People are just camping out because they *choose* not to work. People are not 'dying on the street' that is a flat-out lie. They may be dying of overdose or assault by their fellows but they are not starving or freezing to death.

They seriously think this will help 'solve' the problem? No it will make it much, much, worse as the homeless will flock to Seattle _or_ people will simply choose not to work and live on the street (or in subsidized housing). I think their only criteria is that you can vote (legally or illegally).

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-05-15 18:25|| 2018-05-15 18:25|| Front Page Top

#10 On Bloomberg radio this afternoon a Seattle councilperson said they plan on raising the tax after 5 years. I can only assume they expect to have a bigger homeless problem 5 years from now; otherwise, why require an increase? And maybe they will, I suspect other cities may be more than happy to greyhound their homeless and mental patients to Seattle.

Posted by Airandee 2018-05-15 20:36|| 2018-05-15 20:36|| Front Page Top

#11 To me this is blue-on-blue. I don’t have any sympathy.

Posted by ClemKadiddlehopper9000 2018-05-15 21:10|| 2018-05-15 21:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Avoid Seattle like the plague; between dog crap on the sidewalk and bums wall to wall, and the sugar tax (but Starsux lattes are exempt) I have no need to visit. Son #1 is city attorney for nearby town and they are following these antics very closely looking for businesses they can 'siphon' (his words) out of seattle and into their municipality.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2018-05-15 23:02|| 2018-05-15 23:02|| Front Page Top

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