Seattle Socialists Strangle Golden Goose

[Speaker to Animals]

I pointed this out before, but it's worth noting again:

The VAST majority of the homeless are people you would not recognize as such. Most of them have jobs. They are in this position temporarily. Helping these people is actually pretty easy if you wanted to do it. Most don't really need your help anyway.

What Jedi's sources do are conflate the vast majority of people who are homeless (because of various benign circumstances) with the street people that we are really talking about here. Street people are predominantly drug addicts and/or mentally ill to the point of really needing institutionalization.

But we shut down the state mental health hospitals, so they live on the fucking streets.

[DBTrek]

41% of Seattle’s homeless “work in some capacity”, which includes seasonal and temporary work. Only 13% reported having full time work.

Only 20% cite housing affordability as a factor in their homelessness (sure glad Seattle its Council is paralyzing job growth to throw peanuts at 20% of a problem)

Only 25% blames job loss as a factor (aka for 75% it has nothing to do with jobs, for 80% it has nothing to do with affordable housing)

And looky here, over 50% lived in Seattle 5 years or more and “came for the support of family and friends” - aka that deadbeat relative/friend that hung around for years before people were finally like GTFO.

http://q13fox.com/2017/03/03/new-survey ... eld-myths/

So to quickly recap, after squandering $50million on “making it up as we go” homeless solutions, Seattle City Council alienated the areas largest employers with a head tax for another $48million. The money they’ve taken was supposedly going to fund less than 5% of the affordable housing they claimed to need. Which is ironic, since only 20% of the homeless say affordable housing is an issue. In actuality the head tax money will likely be spent as a funding stopgap measure for the Seattle City Council’s overspending.

Progressives, y’all. Our brainy little “problem solvers”. So elite. So smart.

[Fife]

[C-Mag]

I hear Seattle is getting ready to slam a big increase on Property Taxes............. is that right ?

[DBTrek]

I hear Seattle is getting ready to slam a big increase on Property Taxes............. is that right ?

First they have to repeal the rule limiting the amount of property levies they can saddle us with - and they’re working on that repeal right now.

Think about that. Seattle raises taxes at a rate that caused someone, at some point, to say “Guys, we need to put a limit on this shit because it’s clear that our self control is insufficient to spare us from making bad decisions”.

And now the City Council is like “Fuckit, we just passed a tax or seven, but there’s still more money out there somewhere! Let’s drive up property taxes again, because that’s extremely conducive to creating affordable housing and solving housing shortages!”


They use the HM standard of taxation - if you have any money at all, then clearly you Have money to give to us.

[C-Mag]

So, theyre just going to turn Seattle into Detroit.

That's what happened there. They taxed and taxed until the Auto industry could no longer afford to stay there, then they increased taxes on the people that remained when the big 3 pulled out. Turned it into a Dystopian landscape.

[DBTrek]

That seems to be the plan. Of course, our great forward-thinking progressives believe that small mom and pop shops will magically appear and thrive in an environment so hostile that billion dollar global corporations couldn’t shoulder the tax burden.

Like once Amazon, Zillow, and Starbucks leave the Seattle City Council is going to repeal the last dozen property taxes or something. Nope. That ain’t happening. Once the big boys leave we’ll just have a shitty, drug needle-littered city with property taxes so high NOBODY will be able to operate there.

... at which point progressives will turn to blaming the corporations they ran out of here for abandoning them on account of “greed”. Never realizing, of course, that it was the greed of local government that drove them away.

/shrug

[jediuser598]

That seems to be the plan. Of course, our great forward-thinking progressives believe that small mom and pop shops will magically appear and thrive in an environment so hostile that billion dollar global corporations couldn’t shoulder the tax burden.

Like once Amazon, Zillow, and Starbucks leave the Seattle City Council is going to repeal the last dozen property taxes or something. Nope. That ain’t happening. Once the big boys leave we’ll just have a shitty, drug needle-littered city with property taxes so high NOBODY will be able to operate there.

... at which point progressives will turn to blaming the corporations they ran out of here for abandoning them on account of “greed”. Never realizing, of course, that it was the greed of local government that drove them away.

/shrug

It's their city to run. They elect the public officials, they pay the taxes. Seattle is a progressive city. If they want to run it into the ground, it is certainly within their rights as they pay the bills.

[Kath]

It's their city to run. They elect the public officials, they pay the taxes. Seattle is a progressive city. If they want to run it into the ground, it is certainly within their rights as they pay the bills.

[jediuser598]

It's their city to run. They elect the public officials, they pay the taxes. Seattle is a progressive city. If they want to run it into the ground, it is certainly within their rights as they pay the bills.

Images aren't an argument.

Here we have someone who moved to a progressive city in a progressive state, and bitches non-stop about progressives and how bad they are. It's like going into a tea shop and complaining about how much you hate tea but you're still in the tea shop.

Seattle City Council is made up of all democrats with one exception, a socialist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_City_Council

If you don't like liberals or progressives, get out of the tea shop. Move to Texas or something.