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Seattle's mayor is a pedophile, may be time to take mayoral elections away from the voters there.
On what legal grounds could you do that?
Don't worry, Murray's electoral career is over. Seattle is in the process now of electing a new mayor, and Murray is out of the running. Some people on the city council are pressuring him to resign anyway. There is no claim being made that he is currently abusing anyone, and the abuse he did commit is way past the statute of limitations.
Personally, I would like to see there be no statute of limitations on child abuse. But - that isn't the case.
If that is true why does Donald Trumps budget "cut more than $800 billion from Medicaid, the federal health program for the poor, while slicing $192 billion from nutritional assistance and $272 billion over all from welfare programs" ?
The sole purpose of business is to make money, and a business will naturally pay its workers the lowest wage possible to increase profits. Workers are not paid every penny they are worth, workers are paid the lowest wages business can pay them.
Then why did the Bush tax cuts give the 20% of Americans making up the middle class 6% of the tax cuts, and then give the richest 1% of Americans 51% of the tax cuts? Bush Tax Cuts After 2002: June 2002 CTJ Analysis
And why do Donald Trumps proposed tax cuts raise low income workers after-tax income by 0.8%, and then raise the richest 1% of Americans after-tax income by 13.5% (and raise the richest 0.1% of Americans after-tax income by 14.2%) ?? https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetno...nalysis-finds/
And I would assume that he likes you as well, even though you support a political party that wants to cut billions of dollars in needed assistance for the poor, pollute the environment to increase corporate profits, and add $20.7 trillion dollars to our national debt in the next 20 years by giving the richest 1% of Americans huge tax cuts (it sounds as if the 2 of you are true friends.)
I apologize if I was rude, have a good one AnesthesiaMD,
Chad.
That's the problem with you leftists these days. You take the political rhetoric as a personal affront. Perhaps you can't be friends with people on the other side of the political spectrum. This seems to be a fairly new phenomenon. But I am old school. My homes are in NY and NJ, so the majority of my friends vote democrat and it doesn't get in the way of our relationships. Of course we don't spew rhetoric at each other like we do here on the internet. At most, we throw small jabs at each other every once in a while.
BTW, it's bad form to quote someone with truncated quotes. I know it's easier to respond to only the part of the quote that fits the narrative, but it is still bad form.
Does anyone really think someone who makes 300k will leave the city to save $1250 in annual taxes? LOL.
If the effective rate will be 2.25% as stated previously in this thread that would be $6750. If you earn a million a year that's 22,500k. That's a significant chunk of someone else's money to proclaim a trivial amount.
They can get away with it, since the area is so booming right now. People are flooding in to move there, usually with decently paid jobs.
Just Seattle? Or the entire surrounding area, as well. Seattle isn't all that big. Easy to live outside Seattle, and you'd still be close enough to experience Seattle's business/cultural attractions.
If the effective rate will be 2.25% as stated previously in this thread that would be $6750. If you earn a million a year that's 22,500k. That's a significant chunk of someone else's money to proclaim a trivial amount.
If the effective rate will be 2.25% as stated previously in this thread that would be $6750. If you earn a million a year that's 22,500k. That's a significant chunk of someone else's money to proclaim a trivial amount.
The problem Seattle will have is that the City of Seattle isn't very big, and the surrounding Metro area is well appointed.
The funny thing I'm seeing is arguments that 'if you earn X then Y dollars tax isn't much'.
Let me tell you, I've earned from 5 to high 6 figure salaries, you know what was weird, Y dollars was always worth the same when I was earning $20k as $200k and above sometimes I wonder about people saying these things and their actual income. $0 income tax will always be preferable to $X income tax. So while if I did live in Seattle it may not force me to move (although I'd resent it), if I was moving anyway (and normally people move once or twice a decade in their 20s thru to early 40s) then I'd be looking at Eastside not Seattle.
Hell it's not like you can't get a taxi home to Bellevue, Redmond, etc. once a month you might reach $1200 per year in taxi fees. Or make a weekend of it and get a hotel room. As far as commutes, 520 and 405 are both hell 8 to 11, and 3 to 7 but tech workers (of which I am one) can adjust their schedule (except for very rare occurrences like board meetings or product reviews), arrive at 6am leave at 2pm, or more likely arrive at noon leave at 8pm, or just telecommute.
Ahh! Thank you kindly for the clarification. While that *definitely* lessens the blow, it doesn't change my personal opinion that targeting higher earners with additional taxes is theft, nothing more.
Socialist forget that socialism doesn't work as you will run out of other people's money!
Wow, it must make you feel like a genius to post that meme all over the internet dozens of times, very original.
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