[benhebert]

Everyone says Amazon, Amazon, Amazon but the head tax also would have affected every business doing $20mm/year like grocery, drug stores and even gasp Starbucks! Places where employees are definitely not making six figures on average.

Plus government spending here like many other cities is not well managed. See bike lanes. See the fact that they fired Wells Fargo and then re-hired Wells Fargo because no one else would take their business.

Homelessness is a real problem, but there needs to be more dialogue and better planning before rushing in and taxing growth.

Probably a better idea to look at how the tax system is setup here to favor the wealthy versus low income.

[s2g]

0.9% increase on a minimum wage salary.

Just salary, not even the full cost of having an employee on staff.

I just refuse to believe this is a massive burden on these businesses without numbers.

People said the same stuff about the minimum wage increase.

> Probably a better idea to look at how the tax system is setup here to favor the wealthy versus low income.

They did and that's why they decided on this tax instead of yet more horribly regressive sales taxes.

Washington has a god awful tax system. This is one of the options they had to get the money without squeezing the poor and middle class even more.