Seattle Socialists Strangle Golden Goose

[jediuser598]

You aren't going to commit to your beliefs by moving to a tax free utopia?

I'll get you some cheese to go with that whine.

Right?

[PartyOf5]

This is why you're the no solution guy.

Says the guy who just a few posts ago said this:

We don't know the solution to solving Seattle's homeless problem.

[Fife]

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Pssst: Pass it along: https://mises.org/library/why-cost-gove ... -you-think

[PartyOf5]

I've already stated I am happy to pay more for my Prime membership in order to help defer the costs.

What happens if every other local government comes up with similar taxes? What about Seattle? They called Amazon's bluff and won, which increases the likelihood they will do this again with something else. How far is too far for you?

They have already proven to be extremely inefficient with the money they already had, but their solution is "we just need more".

[jediuser598]

This is why you're the no solution guy.

Says the guy who just a few posts ago said this:

We don't know the solution to solving Seattle's homeless problem.

Which of my posts did you actually read, just that one?

You miss the mechanic part? Or did you just willfully cherry pick?

[PartyOf5]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success.

So ultimate success would be everyone becoming homeless and getting homes from the government?

Not even a little bit.

Here’s another bad faith straw man, for example:

“If Seattle decreasing their homeless populations is ultimate success would nuking Seattle be a good thing?”

Not even a little bit? You said your metric for success has always been the number of homeless off the street and into homes. I simply took that to it's furthest possibility. What does not even a little bit mean?

If you continue to give homeless homes paid for by the government, and yet the homeless population continues to increase, how is that success? Success should be reducing the overall population by addressing the problems that make them homeless in the first place. You're bailing water from the boat as it's sinking, but never patching the hole. The hole keeps getting bigger, but "success!" you bailed another 100 gallons today. Meanwhile 200 entered the boat.

[PartyOf5]

This is why you're the no solution guy.

Says the guy who just a few posts ago said this:

We don't know the solution to solving Seattle's homeless problem.

Which of my posts did you actually read, just that one?

You miss the mechanic part? Or did you just willfully cherry pick?

Did you not say both of those things?

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I've already stated I am happy to pay more for my Prime membership in order to help defer the costs.

What happens if every other local government comes up with similar taxes? What about Seattle? They called Amazon's bluff and won, which increases the likelihood they will do this again with something else. How far is too far for you?

They have already proven to be extremely inefficient with the money they already had, but their solution is "we just need more".

If every local government is experiencing such a tight housing market due to an economic boom, well, I guess that is the sort of problem you want to have.
Fortunately, we have a democratic apparatus in place to allow different regions to experiment with different tax regimes, and we will see where the best solutions arise.

[jediuser598]

Says the guy who just a few posts ago said this:

Which of my posts did you actually read, just that one?

You miss the mechanic part? Or did you just willfully cherry pick?

Did you not say both of those things?

Yes.

Continue, I'd like to see where you're going with this.

[Speaker to Animals]