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Wed Mar 1, 2017, 05:14 AM Mar 2017

Superwealthy entrepreneur decides to go all out with property-tax plan to fight Seattle homeless-

Superwealthy entrepreneur decides to ‘go all out’ with property-tax plan to fight Seattle homelessness

In his State of the City address, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced last week he would ask voters to approve a $275?million property-tax levy to combat homelessness.

Murray cast the plan as his own, saying the city must double its homeless spending. Superwealthy entrepreneur Nick Hanauer, Murray explained, would help draw up the details.

Why Hanauer? The venture capitalist says his Seattle-based think tank brought the idea to Murray and has been working on it for the last year.

“We just decided we were going to do something, and no one can stop that. And once that bus leaves the station, people can get on or get run over,” Hanauer said in an interview.

Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/superwealthy-seattle-entrepreneur-pushing-property-tax-to-battle-homelessness/
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