Tacoma promises more of the same leftist lunacy, drowning some in failed policies while others scramble to shore and run away.
Will it work?
As Teddy Kennedy said: We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Posted on 05/21/2018 8:02:06 PM PDT by llevrok
Bruce Kendall said Monday his phone at the Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County has been ringing steadily since last week's vote by the Seattle City Council to tax big businesses $275 per employee.
"I've received inquiries over the last week from companies that have indicated they are exploring options for locations in Pierce County," Kendall said. "And they are telling me that's why they are calling me, because the head tax passed.
Now companies have another reason to call: A $275 tax credit per employee for new, family-wage jobs.
"Note the value, it's not random," tweeted state Rep. J.T. Wilcox, a Republican who lives in Pierce County.
Seattle's tax hits companies that earn $20 million per year or more and is projected to raise $47 million annually to help address homelessness.
Pierce County's proposal provides an incentive to companies that provide new jobs.
The credit would apply only to new jobs paying $65,000 per year or more, said Libby Catalinich, a spokeswoman for Pierce County.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewstribune.com ...
WA state ping
Ya better watch what ya ask for.
Whose hide is Pierce County’s bribe coming outta?
(as if I have to ask...)
“Please come to Tacoma for the aroma...”
A U.S. Amateur and a U.S.Open
BTW, Tacoma is the home of The Evergreen State College.
Nah, that's Olympia.
BIG difference.
Idiots don’t realize that giving companies tax credits to companies that voluntarily help the homelesd would probably yield better results and probably at lesser costs.
Government is inherently bad at management and altruism.
BIG difference.
You're right. Thanks for the correction.
I lived for a year in Tacoma (1980s).
Olympia is the capital and like a collection of intellectual hippies. Even in that time-period, I’d say that forty-percent of the adults were regular daily smokers of weed.
Tacoma was some working-class town, existing off the Army and Air Force installations, and was the ‘little brother’ of Seattle. Highly unionized would be the term for the town, but not a bad place. What I liked was the weather...never hot or extremely cold...probably two hundred days a year of misty rain for an hour or two per day.
Helping/housing the homeless will guarantee you’ll have more of them.
Putting out unlimited feed for the birds will assure that you will need a frontend loader to scoop the bird*hit off your deck!
i betcha Tacoma doesn’t happen to mention their special minimum wage ...
No it is not you got to head down the road about 30 minutes or so to Olympia the capital of the state.
What does that “sentence” mean?
Actually, Evergreen is about 1 mile from me in Olympia (waaaaaay left city and state crapital)
Close:
"The Boeing Company, the region's largest employer, went from a peak of 100,800 employees in 1967 to a low of 38,690 in April 1971. "
My grandfather was the 2nd to the last person to drive a car on that bridge while it was “galloping”. The other one was in the middle and had to run for his (and his little dog’s) life.
I’ve gone scuba diving underneath it. Concrete blocks the size of a house. Great place for octopus hunting. Or watching.
‘Course that was more than a few years ago. LOL
Here’s hoping all businesses leave Seattle and come to Tacoma.
Msy Seattle be the next Detroit
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