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Fat Cat wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 6:39 pm https://www.dailywire.com/news/30981/ho ... benshapiro

One week after passing a head tax on major businesses located in Seattle, including Amazon, Microsoft and Starbucks, the Seattle City Council is now considering an enormous property tax on the people who work at those businesses. According to Q13 FOX, King County homeowners already saw a bump of 17% in their property taxes in 2017, but City Council members want property taxes increased even more:

"Council members Lorena Gonzalez and Rob Johnson are sponsoring the measure, which states the council wants to lift the limit on regular property taxes in order to levy additional taxes. … In 2014, Seattle voters approved a $58 million levy allowing low-income kids to go to preschool for free. Since 2015, the city says the program has allowed affordable or free preschool to 850 families. Now the city wants to send hundreds more to preschool. Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Office is also pushing to send high school graduates to community college for free."

The property tax would amount to, on average, more than another $250 per year for homeowners.

The homelessness problem in Seattle has continued to snowball (as John Stossel and Maxim Lott point out at Reason.com, Seattle’s building code is 745 pages, and the residential building code is another 685 pages); the Seattle City Council has focused far more on “road diets” — narrowing roads via bike lanes — than on the quality of traffic; King County has spent billions on useless light rail. But now they want to bust homeowners’ wallets again — after instituting a $15 minimum wage and a head tax.

The glass-and-steel roof swoops up like a bird taking flight. A wall made of etched glass opens the rear vista to newly planted landscaping. Embedded in the floor are heating elements intended to ward off the cold weather and keep winter-weary feet cozy.

The location, near Columbia Pike and Walter Reed Drive, is perfectly positioned to take advantage of Arlington County’s growing night life and ethnic restaurants.

And the price tag: $1 million.

“Is this made of gold?” asked commuter Yohannes Kaleab, examining the concrete-and-stainless-steel bench that is part of the new, seven-figure bus shelter.

“What?” asked Robin Stewart as he learned of the cost of the structure while waiting for a bus there last week. “That’s ridiculous. From a citizen, from a voter, whoever put that budget through needs to get their butt canned. It’s an outrage."

Schlegel wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 9:01 pm The first $50,000,000 gets you the program administrators. Actual daycare is extra.

seeahill wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 6:15 pm Here's my solution to the homeless problem. I call it the Wino Zoo.

You take a large area, build hundreds of tiny shelters, offer free cheap wine, drugs of choice. Meals with no sermons. That should attract a lot of homeless folks.

Now build bleachers around the area with some form of protection, like hockey rink glass. Charge folks $5 apiece entry to sit and watch varied lovable and hilarious antics of winos and druggies. Locals would come first and the Wino Zoo would eventually become a tourist attraction.

This would a self-sustaining solution to the homeless problem and it would throw off a substantial amount to be used for improving infrastructure or bribes.

seeahill wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 6:15 pm Here's my solution to the homeless problem. I call it the Wino Zoo.

You take a large area, build hundreds of tiny shelters, offer free cheap wine, drugs of choice. Meals with no sermons. That should attract a lot of homeless folks.

Now build bleachers around the area with some form of protection, like hockey rink glass. Charge folks $5 apiece entry to sit and watch varied lovable and hilarious antics of winos and druggies. Locals would come first and the Wino Zoo would eventually become a tourist attraction.

This would a self-sustaining solution to the homeless problem and it would throw off a substantial amount to be used for improving infrastructure or bribes.

Sangoma wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 7:41 am Sticking new taxes is not commie idea, that's how bureaucrats finance their existence and proliferation. I have interesting pictures from healthcare. I suppose it's the same in most areas of life: number of people actually doing shit - building, cleaning, servicing, repairing, cooking etc. - is overwhelmingly outnumbered by people regulating them.