exNavyOffRec
Well-Known Member
I momentarily forgot about the alcohol tax.To include the highest booze taxes of any state in the Union . . . a per-ounce liquor tax, and then on top of that, a 20% sales tax. But yeah, they get their money in taxing everything else but income for sure.
I seriously wonder whether or not we (WA State) have reached a tipping point where the electorate is just frankly fed up with all the platitudes and no action. Especially after all the utter buffoonery that went down in 2020. Witness the last election, where the three-ring clownshow that is the City of Seattle electorate elected a centrist Democrat mayor and (gasp! Grab the smelling salts, Gertrude!) a centrist ex-Democrat Republican as City Attorney. Now if they could just get the Trotskyist off the City Council, there may yet be hope.
That is something I have been wondering, I think we are getting close or are about the tipping point I won't call it until we see a few more positive changes happen such as all the drug RV's gone, people not smoking heroin on the street, etc....
I had some coworkers that came up from San Fran to visit Seattle, their comments were that it was a smaller, cleaner, and safer version of San Fran and I am thinking "oh god".