Maybe It’s About Time for a Tax on Amazon
As we head into another legislative session and a new Seattle City Council arrives at work today, I am coming around to the idea that we probably should consider taxing Amazon for housing. Remember, I have always opposed the idea of a tax on jobs; you don’t tax things you want, but things you don’t […]
Thoughts on 2019 and 2020: What’s Next is Up to You
I had written a longer post on this topic but it disappeared. Maybe that’s a good thing since that post expressed a lot of frustration with where we’ve been in not just the last year but the last six years. So here’s another try and we’ll see if the hacker or internet gods let this […]
Seattle Eviction Ban: Not Compassionate, Not Needed, Not Legal
Update: You can send a message to council about this here. The eviction myth persists. Now it forms that basis of a demand that evictions be banned during “winter months.” It starts with garbage data. The claim is that (see the featured image) that, 87.5 of renters evicted in 2017 became homeless as a result […]
