it costs $13MILLION to RAISE TAXES??and $6MILLION a year ON TOP??? ya gotta be sh!ttin me,,,
Hey Seattle.....
Look @ my thumb
The State has no income tax. I think this will be shot down by the end of the year.
Hip hip hooray for them. Now they can channel money from n’er do well rich guys to give deserving street addicts even more free drugs. I’m sure you’ll agree that junkies are the worthiest of causes. How can those big mean mostly white men object?
a dumb “law” for many reasons
1) This is unconstitutional per the state constitution and many court rulings testing income taxes
2) Applies to Seattle residents only, not those working in the city limits who live outside of the city
3) needs some means of getting income data from IRS or tax payers.
4) the likely court test is all part of a larger, ongoing push to make an income tax state wide (constitutionally, we only have a sales tax now and they want BOTH).
More likely $125M to enforce and raise $5M annually. If it sticks.
Municipalities can now levy income taxes? By what authority?
F Seattle.
Take all of Bill Gates’ money
it costs $13MILLION to RAISE TAXES??and $6MILLION a year ON TOP??? ya gotta be sh!ttin me,,,
When they realize that their beloved UN considers any one with more than $10,000 in income a year as very wealthy, and still others consider anyone with change in their pockets as rich, the bar will lower fast. And, please, the last one in Seattle turn off the lights ...
Hey, Seattle commies, KMA!
The elitist version of
“Hold muy beer n’ watch this!”
What could possibly go wrong?
Doesn’t New York City have an income tax as well as Chicago? Just asking.
It’s amazing how regulations and laws advance technology. Just the threat of minimum wage increases has caused the automation of jobs that would never, ever have been automated without government interference.
With increases in technology there will come a time when companies have very few brick and mortar buildings and those they do have will be in tax havens. Employees and contractors will telecommute from places that are lower tax. Another innovation is doing away with traditional employees entirely. A time will come when a company has a core of people who absolutely must be employees and the rest will be at-will contractors. We are approaching a time when practically everybody will be a “consultant” whether they want to be or not. Thanks, government.
Can’t they just hold down Paul Allen and steal all his money? It would be a bit simpler.
First, $15.00 per hour for Starbuck's guys and gals (is that bigoted toward the X's?) and now, tax the rich so they'll just move out of town!
Is "America a Great Country or What!"
It would be sooooo difficult for those making $250k alone, or $500k for a couple, to find an address outside of city limits. Ahem.
Seattle will soon be facing a mass exodus people with money and they will soon become the Detroit of the west.
I remember it was Bill Gates and his father who were for this years ago.
They of course would have their money in tax dodges.
How many people will lose their jobs now because of another tax on those that create the jobs!