Nostalgia File: I Used to Support a “Head Tax”

Sometimes I can sense my age. I am getting older. The signs are here and there, like having to stretch before I run to avoid nagging injuries to ligaments, muscles, and bones. Another sign is irony. I think that’s the right word to describe the experience of having supported something then opposing it later — […]

Crosscut and Seattle Times Hand Big Win to Job Tax Advocates

The horse, as they say, is out of the barn. So are the pigs, and the chickens, and all the communists pushing for a tax on jobs in Seattle. The Seattle Times and Crosscut have posted stories about a very poorly argued post about a study by McKinsey Company about the City needing $400 million […]

Seattle City Council: Unhelpful Screening Ban Gets a Court Challenge

The Seattle City Council has demonstrated before it isn’t all that concerned about math, supporting a tax on jobs that is threatening new jobs in the city while producing a tiny number of units, 1,780, five years from now, maybe, at a cost of $285,000,000. Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez claims this small number will somehow address […]