and there you have it...
raising taxes
is not a "money grab".....celebrate!
lowering taxes
is a "money grab"...and...deplorable
that's some pretty screwed up thinking...
oooh...here's more from
Progressive Seattle
"They(city council) also claimed that the city has a right to tax people on the privilege of living in Seattle proper because city of residence is elective."
“Where you choose to live is a voluntary choice and you make that choice based on what the benefits are to that choice and also the detriment, whatever the tax consequences (
constitutional or not) are to making that choice,” said Paul Lawrence, an attorney for the city, during the hearing. “If they don’t like the tax consequences that Seattle has chosen to do, an (
unconstitutional)income tax, they can move to Bellevue.”
“We’re here to tax the rich,” proclaimed councilmember Kshama Sawant, the bill’s sponsor.
Then-mayor Ed Murray said that his “progressive city” had hit upon “a new formula for fairness.” (
Murray resigned after the fifth allegation of child-sex abuse, was lodged against him).
Murray explained that he
planned to use the revenue generated by the tax to lower other taxes.
great... more funding for these morons
