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Re:Seattle City Council unanimously approves income tax for ... by SomeStupidPoint on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:46PM (#14740811)
It'll be interesting to see the court cases play out for this, and what the long-term effects will be -- both in switching WA to a more progressive tax scheme, and in the effects of a city implementing a tax like this (assuming Seattle prevails in court).

Seattle (and more broadly WA) taxes are all kinds of strange.

As someone said: isn't weird we have the two wealthiest people in the world here, but can't afford schools?

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Re:Seattle City Council unanimously approves income tax for ... by nogbit on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:07PM (#14740873)
Because those wealthy people ran companies that never paid a dime in Washington States B&O tax while every other business without big lawyers must do so. If WA wants to fund the things they want they simply need to treat all business fairly.

https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+does+not+pay+b%26O...

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Re:Seattle City Council unanimously approves income tax for ... by Thorncorona on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:59PM (#14740854)
The Seattle area definitely does - they have #28, #41, and #80 out of the best 100 high schools.
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Re:Seattle City Council unanimously approves income tax for ... by taobility on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:08PM (#14740881)
BillG/JeffB are living in Bellevue, east side of Seattle
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