State Senator wants to stop Seattle from implementing a head tax

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the Seattle City Council’s proposed employee head tax continues to take shape, a legislator in Olympia would love to throw a wrench into the plans.

State Senator Mark Schoesler, a Republican from Ritzville, told 770 KTTH’s Jason Rantz he’s worried about the impact this kind of tax would have on jobs in the state.

“If we chase great employers out of Seattle, we lose the revenue and the jobs for King County and the entire state,” Schoesler said. “That’s where I have to get involved.”

The state Legislature does have the ability to revoke local taxing authority, and they already prohibit city governments from taxing gasoline and insurance. Schoesler told Rantz he absolutely wants to put a stop to this tax, too, if he can.

http://mynorthwest.com/958681/state-senator-wants-to-stop-seattle-from-implementing-a-head-tax/

Wether such a tax is a good thing or not I don't know but why the fuck someone from Ritzville gives a shit is beyond me.

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Seriously.

" a Republican from Ritzville" -- here's hoping that Colbert or Kimmel picks up on that. It almost sounds like it was invented for a comic strip. At the very least, it could be construed as redundant. Oy.

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[LisaM]

2. Seattle is messed up at the moment.

In the first place, they've got to quit knocking down affordable housing and they've got to get a handle on rents.

It's completely unreasonable to allow these large companies to flood the city and the downtown with tens of thousands of new employees without having put some kind of plan in place to protect people who are already here, and to put some limits on things. This is like a new gold rush. It's a complete Wild West and downtown has become an extremely unpleasant place to be - homeless people abound, local stores moving out and chains on every corner, no real shopping to speak of, and relentless, relentless construction. It's hard to even go for a walk on my lunch hour because it's just a question of dodging construction sites. Their next bonehead move is to take all the tunnel buses and put them on the streets (years ahead of the next scheduled opening for new light-rail stops), which will be another nightmare.

I hadn't really heard of this so-called head tax, but while I'm all for Amazon paying more taxes, this hardly seems like a good way to get them to do it. And all to build less than 2000 new units (probably over the course of a decade), when I'm sure they've knocked down many more than that in the wild course of destruction that's going on.

[PaulX2]

3. Tax Wealth Not Employers Or Workers

Problem solved.