At a recent small gathering to commemmorate the death of another homeless woman in the downtown, Starbucks was praised for donating a single, miserable container of hot coffee to the gathering. Very Seattle. Appearance and pretense over substance. Table: “Homeless Deaths Rise Once More In King County (including Seattle): 2012-2018”, in Seattle Times, January 9, […]
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Seattle Used to Be So Nice: A Letter To a Shocked Tourist
Truly, Seattle is a basket case. They have pushed it very far, sliding on a massive tax base they did nothing to cultivate. Once Seattle was a truly great place to live and that alone was the basis for “high tech” economic growth. (Amazon is, you realize, mainly just a low wage warehousing operation with […]
Continue readingSeattle’s Head Tax and the Infrastructure of ANTIFA Bullying
In Seattle, the City Council’s plan to raise tens of millions of additional dollars every year for homeless services by taxing large corporations $500 for each employee in Seattle, has been very unpopular. At $500 per employee per year, the Head Tax would raise $75 mlllion a year. Large demonstrations of construction workers opposing the […]
Continue readingSeattle Economic Growth Indicator
In Seattle, economic growth is measured in homelessness, and in particular in homeless deaths, since Seattle greeedily pulls other regions’ homeless in by handouts and homeless “empowerment” social polices, and pushes people into the streets by (1) supporting “high-tech” low wage growth, like Amazon, and (2) enacting measures and taxes that increase the price of […]
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