[wjcsux]

Washington state is doing everything that they can to drive away the people who pay the most money in taxes, just like NY, IL and CA.

[ConservativeInPA]

Say goodbye to your highly compensated healthcare workers. They are in demand all over the place.

[Political Junkie Too]

imposing an excise tax on the annual compensation paid to certain highly compensated hospital employees

That sounds like a bill of attainder.

-PJ

[taxcontrol]

I predict an exodus of health care administrators from Washington state.

[BenLurkin]

“excess compensation”?

That pretty much describes all of the UC administration. It’s obscene how much those hacks make.

[No name given]

Commies!!!!!!!

[Raycpa]

Besides the constitutional issues, couldn’t they just change their titles?

[MayflowerMadam]

Hasn’t D.C. been doing that to us for decades?

[Jim Noble]

The flip side of this, however, is that the more the Left makes the job of hospital administration one in which people’s wealth is confiscated and they cannot make a decent living, the fewer people will go into hospital administration

Good.

Healthcare quality in general will suffer improve greatly.

Fixed it.

[Secret Agent Man]

Socialized Murder

[chrisser]

I find it interesting that Dems seem to be obsessed with taxing income.

But they don’t seem to care even slightly about taxing wealth.

I’m not suggesting taxing wealth is a good idea, but it seems someone with a few $Million or $Billion in wealth would be a more appropriate target that a person who actually works for a living and negotiates a higher than average level of compensation freely with an employer.

Could it be that Dems rely heavily on the wealthy to fund their causes and the price for that largess is to ensure that club stays as small as possible?

[Secret Agent Man]

“Socialists just take every single thing and turn it into a vehicle for poverty and death.”

Yeah you can quote me on that.

[Dave911]

Well, a huge percentage of health care workers are left leaning socialists, so they should pony up and be happy about it.

[frank ballenger]

Money all belongs to the Marxist state, not to the dorky little American people.

Someday the dimwit Dems will say “Hey, I don’t like this like I thought I would.”

They say people vote their way into socialism and then have to fight their way out of it.

“You’re not going to like what comes after America.”
—Leonard Cohen

[Husker24]

Why not college and high-school administrators as well?

[NorthMountain]

‘excess compensation’

Ahhh ... politicians and bureaucrats: Experts on everything. Back in 2020, politicians and bureaucrats had the insufferable gall to decree which businesses and employees were "essential" and which were not. They wrecked the economy.

[arthurus]

What Will be accomplished is to chase wealth out of the state.

[grateful]

We left WA on Saturday. Never going back.

[Palio di Siena]

Best I can dig up - average annual wage in Washington State is around $57,500.
Ten times that is $575,000.
Oh well - a lot of hospital managers are going to have decisions to make.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Singing “Killing them softly with taxes”.

Washington State, as well as Oregon and California are Communist Criminal states, aided and abetted by the Democrat Party and MARXIST leftist ethnic organizations. They ARE our Domestic Terrorist Enemies.