Economic issues-taxes, freedom to do business, unemployment
Anyone familiar with Seattle is aware that the Chinatown area on the southern end of downtown is an open-air drug market, where junkies and dealers clog the sidewalks, along with numerous homeless tents and other temporary structures. Thousands of low-income elderly live in the many local apartment buildings, and they have been complaining for years …
This is also called "Dynamic Pricing," and it couldn't exist without the new electronic shelf tags that most grocery chains are now adopting. Those electronic tags enable up-to-the-second price changes, almost invisible to shoppers. Walmart has strenuously denied doing this "surveillance" pricing which takes into account how THEY calculate the "willingness to pay" a higher …
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Over at the Daily Signal, author Jarrett Stepman thinks so. His article opines that Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim Socialist, has been chipping away at public order in New York City, the better to prepare it and its inhabitants for a new Socialist future (his phrase during his campaign being "The Warmth of Collectivism"). We …
It seems like almost every day, we get news of another restaurant closing here in the Seattle area. In our region, many cities, led by Socialist Seattle, have above-market minimum wages, forcing restaurateurs to pay all of their employees, even tipped and part-time ones, over $20 per hour. Jobs like dish-washing and bussing tables aren't …
It seems that the State of Washington, which everyone knows is just rolling in taxpayer money, decided to build the new facility but neglect to staff it! Olympia just can't wait to spend every penny coming in at least three times, even before it is received! Emphasis mine. WELCOME TO WASHINGTON STATE GOVERNMENT Where the …
Today, the Leftist-biased Washington State Supreme Court did what it was expected to do, and threw out a Citizen Initiative challenging a state law outlawing the use of natural gas for any reason, including home heating and appliances. Initiative 2066 passed handily in 2024, and the usual suspects immediately challenged it, stating that the People …
It often seems that the citizens of Washington State can't seem to catch a break. The fight against the looming Income Tax continues, and the ordinary people can seem like they are sleeping through the whole thing. Let's Go Washington, the citizen group fighting the income tax, and struggling to pass all three of their …
I am reading Thomas Sowell's book "Wealth, Poverty, and Politics", and his discussion of the many factors that affect what kind of society results from a variety of geographic, demographic, social, and genetic factors interacting. For a long time, I have thought about societies like those in Russia and most European and Asian countries in …
Continue reading Thoughts on Societies, and on America. Poor peasants.
This photo and post are unbelievable in their obtuseness, and total uselessness. But I repeat myself. Their reason for being is a huge hoax, and they are supported with MY tax dollars! Yes, in spite of the Trump administration outlawing DEI, my state goes right on ahead indoctrinating everyone to believe that there is such …
Continue reading Can you say “Virtue Signaling”? “Environmental Justice” in Washington State
Aside from the fact that Seattle teachers are very well-paid, with generous benefits that no one in the private sector can match, the state of Education is parlous all over Washington. In spite of their great pay packages, Seattle teachers still wait until the last moment before school starts to vote on their union packages, …
Continue reading What’s up with Education in Seattle, and the rest of Washington State?
