Businesses in Seattle revolt over homeless 'head tax'
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Seattle reverses course on tax after Starbucks and Amazon pressure council; Bill Bennett and Steve Hilton react on 'The Story.'
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If you increase handouts to the homeless, you draw in more homeless. Not hard to figure out.
Do you think REDUCING aid to everyone would be the best thing to do?
What the homeless need is homes, not handouts. In these big cities there is a major shortage of affordable and/or subsidized housing, forcing marginalized people to live in cars or tents. Fix that issue before you enable homelessness with free handouts.
@@howardsmith9342 well for a long time now since before we started keeping track of time, when the resources ran out in an area the people would move to a new area where the resources were plentiful. I suggest that's what the homeless do. They can go to areas where there are jobs, and more affordable housing. This will in turn cause housing prices to go down in the over populated areas, because there will be less demand.
@@howardsmith9342 you have a point. But there are homeless because of bad circumstances, and there are the habitually homeless. I say give them all the same chance to rebuild their lives, and that's it. Many are homeless because they cannot or will not assimilate to a functioning society.
Let us not forget, in King County Washington there are homeless camps filled with employees of Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing..... Because a studio apartment can cost over $2500.... A gallon of milk is $10...... But by all means...... $15 minimum wage is needed....
Liberals destroying liberals....gonna need more popcorn!
They're Jacobins
@Rob Durst Is yer brother Fred still ch@$in' dookie or is that nookie?
I'm running out of popcorn!
This show can't go on anymore! These liberals need to be weeded out of our country!
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If you subsidize failure and punish success what do you think you will get? Seattle must want to be the next Detroit.
They’ve got enough drug addicts. Seattle is halfway there.
dale -- very well put.
Biana Doubt I agree. I remember when Detroit was the most productive city on this planet. High taxes and the same sort of nonsense that Seattle tried drove most of the business out.
who cares if they become another Detroit? lol.
Biana Doubt good to hear. Detroit deserves a return to being a great place. People who love Detroit , like you, will make this possible. Other cities will use Detroit as an example to follow.
“Spending efficiency problem”. Almost all of government has that problem....it’s why small government is such a good idea.
High Homelessness rates and Democrat government. I see a pattern.
No. republican places have a lot of homeless as well, but they shoo them out or jail them. They don't like to witness peoples suffering, they might be moved to help. You know being a good, decent human being is considered anti-American now.
This is not about partisan politics but rather about the incredible inefficiency of socialist ideology applied to government. The city council contains a "Alternative Socialist Party" member who has also taught Economics at a local junior college (now that's scary) and whose stated response to opposition to her policies is to "take it to the streets". She unfortunately has council colleagues who support her views. The lesson it is hoped that the council has learned is that they were only elected to represent their constituents and were not anointed to dictate. But still the Seattle Soviet aka city council continues to promote their extreme views. Another council member was heard to suggest that in addition to promoting Safe Injection sites for drug users, that the city should also buy the drugs for those unable to provide them for themselves.
Tabby Reed .. do some research on the subject. Maybe then you will see how completely ignorant you look right now.
Tabby, why don't you house a few of them in your own home or yard and be a decent human being? Oh, or you can also give them half your income maybe? Oh? You won't? Why not? But you know how to preach huh? Piece of shit...
This isn't really accurate as large metro cities always have the most homeless population. Everyone flocks to the mega city hoping to make it but then find out the cost of living is sky high and they can't afford to live there but then its too late to leave because they dont have any money to leave either. Nothing new. This has been going on for centuries. It has nothing to do with democrat run gov't. Its greedy business owners exploiting the populace.
Crazy that those who work their ass off for their businesses don't wanna foot the bill for those who don't
Europe has always complained about countries like Germany and France or England footing the Bill for Greece - Cyrpress maybe Spain too Portegul
Check your facts son. Also your spelling.
...kind of like paying off student loans, eh??
Liberal business acting like conservatives when it comes to their wallets, go figure.😱
R Reichel Everyone's a conservative when it comes to their own money.
Money talks and BS walks !!!!!
Liberals are only liberal with other people's money.
Nizzle FoShizzle Are you then saying that it's natural and right for each individual but it's not natural and right for everyone else is that not an oxymoron
Nizzle FoShizzle Well then what I will conclude from your reply is it doesn't take much to confuse you. So riddle me this Batman, What is a man that will criticize others for but will do for himself?
Seeing what Seattle has done to itself and all their misappropriation of funds is mind blowing! With the tax revenue they already receive, it boggles my mind how they can't make it work. For all of you non seattlites out there hear this: To remedy Seattle's drug problem the city spent over $2 mill on needles and injection sites... Homelessness exceeded expectations.
Seattle and San Fran used to be so nice....
grabir01 Yeah. Like 40 year's ago.
grabir01 Seattle has catered to the homeless for decades.
grabir01 they are dirty garbage now unfortunately
So true they used to both be such nice places!
until the libtards ruined them
It’s almost as if the actions of the council have consequences. Who would have thought?
All the liberal open borders, immigrants are welcome, help the homeless, everyone counts, help the poor type companies and people quickly change their minds when they are told to pay for them.
TX Beachbum exactly but they expect everybody else to take care of these people but not their self go to their neighborhood 898% white walls around the houses
Liberals can't even keep track of what are and aren't supposed to do with political correctness, and it's hilarious.
I heard it all: CEO is forced to apologize for eating Chick-fil-A. Lol!!!!!!!!!!!! This shit is too funny 😂
We call it hate chicken. There has been an un-official boycott for years.
I apologized for eating Chick fillet once. . . but only because I was sorry I hadn't eaten it sooner.
@@tabbyreed8925 your boycott hasn't worked very well.
@@sapphonymph8204 No, but neither has any of yours. it's a moral thing for me, it's not just about trying to shut them down.
@@tabbyreed8925 I don't boycott anything but 5 o'clock traffic. Chick fillet takes moral stances on societal rot.
That money wouldn't have seen a single homeless recepient. Unless we count these socialist unions and their bank accounts.
mfchimichanga
It was an effort at extortion and shaking down the business es
Make matters worse they never even had any plans yet for that money that they we're planning on earning. They had zero projects planned. None.
It's like walking into a bank asking for $100,000 loan and when the bank asks you what's that money for? And you just shrug your shoulders and say. I don't know? stuff?
mfchimichanga i was homeless for a decade, our govt doesnt recognize homelessnes dont beleive me go to a social worker and say your homeless
@@RagDollRat recognize it for what exactly? If you were homeless for 10 years, you wanted to be
A dose of reality.
Deana Stroud reality is hard.
I think that every major city in the country is going through similar issues. I live in Philadelphia, and not only are we a sanctuary city, but our current mayor and district attorney are liberal to the point of nausea. They are emptying the prisons at an alarming rate, which means we will soon be like Seattle, Los Angles, and San Francisco, with homeless tent cities everywhere. I look forward to getting out of this shithole city as soon as I can.
I live in PA, and always feel sympathy for the people who live in places like Philly, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Erie that aren't radically liberal but have to try living with their policies. People ask me how I can stand living where I do...the entire county has 1 red light, no medical facility, 1 grocery store, no public transportation, no prison. It also has no crime (to speak of) no homelessness, no great drug problem ( we do have a lot of alcohol drinkers, but it's hard to accidentally overdose on Yeungling lager, and Noone has ever gotten a fentanyl laced rum and coke). If I have to drive 45 minutes to get to "civilization " I consider it MORE THAN an easy price to pay knowing I haven't locked my doors but 3x in the 20 years I've lived here.
Seattle got a lesson in economics. Lol
"The main vice of Capitalism is the uneven distribution of Prosperity.The main vice of Socialism is the even distribution of Misery." Winston Churchill
Tax all those who voted socialism.
No Balls Jack Dorsey. He should've just said, "Sometimes a chicken sandwich is just a chicken sandwich."
Seattle got owned
😂😂😂
Owned by their own Millennials snowflakes and socialist leaders.
A "Head Tax" is completely illegal. The 16th Amendment only allows for
taxes on forms of INCOME as it specifically says. It does not allow for
a tax on PROPERTY, HEALTH CARE, LACK OF HEALTH CARE, and clearly not a
HEAD TAX.
I don't know why people would be so stupid to pay it in the first place.
LUIS Cortez )that's not me
Illegal. If it happens in my state, I will be ignoring it. and THEY can take it to court.
...and some of those homeless are capable of..uh...hold your breath...they could...GET A JOB and PAY BILLS and TAXES!!!!!!! WOW!! What an idea!!!
Cant do that on minimum wage which only barely if at all covers the rent to the greedy landlord. I love it when idiots spread this line.
MackDyeGames
Hey IDIOT, you can rent a room for $500/ month in Seattle. I used to own a business there...I know. If you make $15/ hr...that's $30k year - $6k for housing leaves $24k for plenty of Starbucks coffee. I love it when mathematically challenged people try to correct people. LMFAO!!!
@@paulf3358
>Affording anything in Seattle.
@@paulf3358 Really? I thought housing costs were too expensive in Seattle? In Baltimore you can't even rent a room for $500 anymore, unless it's with a relative, or a friend. Or in a drug infested area such as West Baltimore. Though most of the city is drug infested, some areas are worse then others. The average halfway decent area for a 1 bedroom cost between $900-$1,000 here. A room for rent is around $600-$700 in the city. But some of the counties are cheaper.
WHO NEEDS AJOB???THE “GREEN NEW DEAL” provides an income even for those that choose not to work!!!!
Seattle is as nutty as San Francisco.
monkeygraborange - Both cities are the land of fruits and nuts 🍈🍊🍋🍎🍏🍐🥝🍑🌈👨❤️👨👬
I've lived in Washington my whole life and the last 7years in seattle. I've witnessed first hand the homeless population grow downtown and creep into the nicer neighborhoods of seattle. it's really sad. such a beautiful city and its going down the drain.
Thanks your local DemocRats.
It’s sad what has happened to Seattle. Used to be the most beautiful city in the country. The emerald city... no more. Sad.
Michael Jones i live in Seattle and it’s gone to shit
I live in California. Seattle and many cities on the west coast used to be beautiful. Our California beaches were awesome. Everything a Democrat touches turns to shi*.
Seattle...the next Detroit
Tax, spend, rinse and repeat.
Beats BORROW AND BOMB, believe me. We the People Keep BORROWING $700 BILLION this year, $716 BILLION already approved for next, and the next and the next. DEBT IS A TAX ON THE FUTURE. Our grandchildren will HATE this generation for being so stupid. War has already been Approved by the Silent Majority. Forgive us, Lord, we have been struck dumb.
humbold, cancer!
You are probably already dead. But if you seek a place to make your stand -- Revelation 3: 6-12. We keep Jesus' commandments -- Matthew 22: 36-40.
Go ahead and make marijuana legal!! You end up with San Francisco North!!
And political correctness is ruining the whole country.
Dont Pay people to be homeless. They will show up on the corner like a job everyday. Homelessness should be uncomfortable. Been there, done that myself.
True, same with convicts in prison. They have everything they need to flourish, and the average liberal can't understand why our prisons are so packed. Most of them get light sentences for horrific crimes, do only a 3rd of that time, get out to commit more crimes, to go back in. Meanwhile, living a better life then some law abiding citizens have. But the chronic homeless are use to living the way they do. Giving them a "paycheck" to be homeless will only make it worse. Because the average lazy citizen might find this to be an attractive lifestyle. Not to mention the corruption that will undoubtedly come into play.
And I too was homeless for about 5 weeks, decades ago. Haven't been since, and don't want to be again...
Tough love !! I am from the Puget sound area and have been here all my life. The worthless city government's lack of doing anything WILL EVENTUALLY lead to citizens taking the law into their own hands. I am a retired Corrections/Probation officer. This PC society has gone so far left, I believe we will get to the point that we cant recover. 75-80% of the homeless people are there BECAUSE of their addiction and lack of enforcing laws and having the Police not enforce laws on the books will only accelerate Seattle into becoming a 3rd world City.
Democrats in charge...
Deep Thought
That's the way they think, take take take, no consideration to actual legality.
They've been making things worse and wirse. Everyyime theyre a majority, stuff gets worse and worse and has been for a long time.
They just can't see, that they ARE the problem. The US is a republic, we don't need to stinking democrats
Jeff "I'm a liberal but let every poor person pay for nutty policies not me" Bezos
Since Bezos is a high-rolling DNC donor that helps get all these WOKE DNC politicians into office he should donate $ billions every year to help the homeless in all these DNC-run cities he helped create. Maybe the homeless should all camp out on Amaz0n properties in these cities.
I think we build the wall around Seattle, then fill it with water. Problem solved!
Matt Eberharter
The democrats should just be dismantled, banned, and run out of the country . A constitutional republic had no need for democrats.
Good I'm glad that now the people who are voting to tax the so-called rich business owners are NOW feeling the ill effects of such a failed policy!!
Take money from the productive,throw it into the wind,then ask for more.
Lather,rinse,repeat.
I live near Seattle and yes, it’s disgusting. Homeless people and tents everywhere. I avoid going into Seattle as much as possible.
Name one nice liberal city?
I hear Hell is nice in the winter.
Caul Casion okay, my question stands
The big island in Hawaii
Mark Madison not a city. Honolulu on the island of Oahu however is. being over populated, homeless everywhere, and the streets smell like piss
Is mayonnaise a city?
I lived outside of Seattle for 12 years. It's sad to see what it has become. I agree with THATMOFODIRT, they voted for these people and now they have to live with the consequences.
If you wanna give money to anyone do it for charity, food banks, and shelters. Panhandling only created more problems
A "head tax" sounds more like a tax on executioners for every prisoner they decapitate. XP
Seattle and LA mirror each other.
And Portland Oregon
Seattle is trying to turn into San Francisco. And, being someone who's lived in Washington my entire life it's really concerning to say the least.
Lgbtxyz month... don't forget to eat plenty of chic-fil-a and praise God in public.
So glad I don't live in WA or CA. Enjoy the socialism.
omg!! so now we can't pick what we what to eat. how ridiculous people have become. My gay friends eat at Chick-fil-a
Deana Stroud don't let the restaurant know they are gay they will be kicked out it happened at another of their restaurants and they fired an employee because he was gay and there food is nasty
With regard to the Chick-Fil-A tweet... lesson of the day: If you seek out attention, you’re going to get it. - posting everything you do to social media is nothing more than attention seeking behavior, we all know this, and not everyone will give you positive attention. Want to eat at Chick-Fil-A without being attacked for it? Just eat it quietly and keep it to yourself. No one cares what you had for lunch.
Thank you... I'll never understand people's "need" to show EVERYONE what they had for their meals...🤨
Yes this constant desire for people to know your business baffles me I like my privacy doesn't mean I don't like to do things in public just means I don't want everybody Knowing where and when I go
@@davidpavlicek4322 Social Media has turned so many people into attention whores.
My how the tables have turned when the rubber meets the road.
So many homeless people in usa but migrants keep flowing in
True but immigrant's come here for job opportunities and to pursue career's, which makes employment more difficult for U.S citizens.
Head tax on business will reduce employment and increase poverty and homelessness.
It was a dumb idea. However, there are only two ways to Profit from the Poor (they have almost no money) except to 1) get them addicted and/or 2) get the government to Pay you to Help them or to Incarcerate them. Everybody wants to Profit. There is no altruism anymore. Too many mouths to feed.
I could suggest Culling them, but "they" would want a huge Profit for that, too.
humboldthammer they forgot the concept of charity. Instead of taxing go the charity route.
Only because the mega rich corps like amazon wont part with all the excess cash sitting in the coffer instead of using it for good. Instead lets just blame the democrat leaders....right?
"Seattle is proudly a sanctuary city". Welcome a million more unemployed, homeless, illegal immigrants folks. This is just so stupid I don't know what to say.
No one is owed equal housing. The Democrats should be run out of town.
Doesnt it make you sick that you can be paying 2500 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment in Seattle and your neighbor gets his apartment for free because he filled out enough paperwork and chose to not get a job for a year or more?? And we wonder why there are more and more homeless in the cities that supposedly have all the best programs to "get them back on their feet."
Jack Dorsey totally lacks integrity giving into bullying!!!! Pathetic!
Want to solve homelessness build that wall it will help anyway.
"Do as I say, not as I do."
The Liberal mantra.
Why shouldn't big business have a voice? Remember no taxation without representation?
Lol, what did they think was going to happen......Now back to the drawing board and MAKE UP some New Tax.....
Taxing people for having a job. STUPID!
Ole Jeff doesn't like it when he is paying for his liberal ideas lol go figure.........And nor does Starbucks lol
Blame someone else for the problems you make so that nobody notices... well, nobody stupid, at least.
Don't forget the inability of the Police to enforce laws that would put the drug users and dealers in jail and/or rehab that would take 1000's off the street. I grew up in the area and it's sad. It hurts that I might not ever go back.
Men apologizing for eating Chic fil a is such a disgrace, I don't call him human anymore.
Pay me im lazy
If I recall, the bill had special interest exceptions on certain businesses (pot shops maybe?) linked to some of the policy makers. Lol
How about stop funding illegal immigration, and instead use that tax money to help combat homelessness, and poverty in inner cities, as well has improve the quality of our kids education
Who’s in charge of the west coast....Democrats? Nuff said!
I live in WA and visit Seattle a few times per year. It's amazing that for how liberal and deranged that city is, how much it contrasts with the rest of Washington State. We actually have some of the most friendly gun laws in the Union despite our reputation that Seattle lends us. That city used to be so different when I was a child, and now it's imploding onto itself and has become a cancer on our state economy.
love chic fil a
Members of the city council had to put down their bongs and think about this.
"Headless in Seattle"?
The city has a liberalism problem.
There is no known cure.
God bless Chic-Fil-A! Mmmmmmm.
🇺🇸 Capitalism 🇺🇸
Although I lived is Seattle for years I have since moved. It is now my understanding that Seattle's homeless problem is really a drug problem. Completely different thing. Perhaps some started out with drug problems and perhaps some resorted to drugs because of their homelessness. Nevertheless it is a big time drug problem.
But the judicial system is ineffective to enforce the law. Instead they are decriminalizing and even enabling much of this behavior and so it continues. And it will continue to spiral out of control until they identify the real issue. Seattle is drug infested just like San Francisco.
But so many of our great leaders are profiting personally from the drug trade and making taxpayers pay for it and calling them heartless and demonizing them when they disagree...I dont see anything changing anytime soon
Walgreens drug store announces it is closing its downtown store yesterday.. 3/28/19.. Due to the unsafe environment of the homeless and drug crisis.
Come to Indiana, we will give you tax BREAKS Starbucks and Amazon.....
If I were AMZ I would have threatened back (and dug in) you should pay us $275 per year for the jobs we create if you want us to stay.
Seems like the whole west coast is caught in this downward spiral.
So Seattle's ideal to solve homeless problem is to make companies pay a higher tax for employing people?
Wouldn't that just lead to mass layoffs and a higher homeless problem? Have they ever heard of this little thing called Cause and Effect?
I pay the same tax for my company in CA. Always wonder how state is spending our $$, because it getting worse every year.
The schools were 47th about a year ago and our roads are 49th. Where is the money going?
In my country call it from left hand to right pocket, that is why getting worse. It is very easy to play saint with someone else's money. Try to be with own money. Most of these money are wasted, and stolen by bottom to top of government officials.
Amazon just purchased another 96 acres to add to the 150 they already purchased and built on 2 years ago here in Metro Detroit. Huge distribution center and another being built right now. Of course not in Detroit itself, but a city that shares a border with it.
That's the thing about liberal policies, eventually someone has to pay for it.
You already raised their minimum wage to $15, spiked corporate tax rates, taxed the beans out of rich, and now you want to tax them on your homeless problem you created?
Inslee is killing seattle
Went to Seattle last summer to go on cruise. Homeless camps everywhere. I will never go back
Don't give the homeless anything and they will leave.
I just moved away from there, the cost of living is rediculous. Companies are in business to profit not to support everyone that does not work for them.
The down town Macys store is closing because people stopped going there because of all the homeless that live just outside the store.
I have the solution... Tax the homeless !!!
I travel to Seattle about 4 times a week and it still blows my mind how nasty it has become under the Democratic leadership it was at one time a beautiful place but it's now reduced to third world status.
Raise taxes on tobacco to discourage tobacco consumption.
Raise taxes on alcohol to discourage alcohol usage.
Raise taxes on employees to discourage employee hiring?
Contracter replaces toilet in residential house-$300. Same Contracter replaces toilet in city owned property-$3000. Trust me. I know.
Taxation is THEFT. Last time I checked, taking money without permission of the owner is called stealing.
All them homeless people choose their own way,they love their drugs,that's there fault,not ours,have a goal,do something with your life,I have,I ain't rich,but try try try try get a job,get a shower,do something,stop being a bum,better yourselves!!!!!
“I don’t like amazons policies but I sure use them!” Don’t we all?
"not a revenue problem, a spending efficiency problem", sums up the entire government.
The guy on the right said something about Amazon being a big company, bullying the government, but this looks like checks and balances to me and it has worked in favor of the little guy, because the tax would have been so absurd. I understand his point in general that big companies have more power and I'd like some kind of check and balance meant for the small business owners, most of them have it rough and most people are employed at a small business.
Its a proven fact that Big Business pay for squat .... lts whats left of the middle class that ending up paying .... What will they do when middle class is totally wiped out ?
People were not born homeless. They became homeless at the point that they could not pay the rent anymore regardless of whatever deviant behavior they may have. Anyone could put a roof over their head providing they could pay the rent. Not understanding this facilitates homelessness and those becoming rich from this social problem.
I love that liberal star bucks didn’t like liberal policies when it affected them
How do we have a crisis on the border and a homeless epidemic at the same time. How is this possible. Are people being promised housing and a job or are they not being given a choice. Either way our situation gets worse.