Just How Much Damage Can Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Do Before She Leaves Office?

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25 Replies to “Just How Much Damage Can Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Do Before She Leaves Office?”

  1. Seattle appears to be in a downward spiral.

    Businesses move or close due to high costs.
    Tax revenue drops.
    Tax rates increase and services are cut back to compensate for falling revenue.
    More businesses move or close due to high costs.

    and so on. We’ve seen this played out over and over again in the US, almost always in left-wing states and cities.

    1. Seattle appears to be in a downward spiral.

      Seattle (among a veritable host of blue states & cities) has been in a downward spiral for 20 years now & you just picked up on it? How perfectly prescient of you.

      At this rate, ’round about 2040 or so, you’ll finally clew in about the Coof. Good we have a timeline.

      1. No idea why Kate tolerates your garbage. There’s a like-minded clique on this site who act as ideological guard dogs, abusing anyone who steps out of line. It only serves to drive off newcomers who might want to express a different take on things, thus reducing traffic to her site and making it far less interesting.

        1. Well, let’s take a look at this, shall we?

          Seattle (among a veritable host of blue states & cities) has been in a downward spiral for 20 years now…

          That’s a cold, hard fact. No garbage here.

          … & you just picked up on it?

          This, too, is a cold, hard fact. Again, no garbage.

          How perfectly prescient of you.

          Are you not prescient for observing this? Where’s the garbage?

          At this rate, ’round about 2040 or so, you’ll finally clew in about the Coof.

          As you are about 2 decades behind in your Seattle Road to Damascus moment, it stands to reason that same timeline pervades much of your life. Speculation, yes. Garbage? Nope.

          QED…

          Also, at what point did ideology enter the equation? As a matter of fact, you introduced it right off the get go w/ your almost always in left-wing states and cities. statement.

          So who is the ideologue?

          In addition, do you have a peer-reviewed paper to back up your conjecture about Seattle? No? You ask for that all the time. Now it’s our turn.

      2. DB, it used AI to come up with that statement. Pretending to be a conservative requires external tools, liblogic cannot compute outside of their altered states.

      3. When I find people who have dropped their trousers and collapsed onto the floor, I like to dance on their exposed buttocks. I’m not sure if that counts as abusing anyone who steps out of line. And speaking of lines, no doubt the line of the intimidated silent stretches, trembling anxiously, into the distance, but I can see no trace of it. And frankly, the less tosh gets pitched here, the more prestigious the environment for me, so my advice to them is: if in doubt, shut up.

    2. Shared misery with the destruction of middle income earners (I don’t use Marxists terms like capitalism and class), the gilded gated apparatchiks of course immune from the devastating effects of the disease of socialism.

      I just wish even one of these wealthy socialist converts would donate their wealth instead of their hypocrisy.

      1. They appear to live in a world where economics and common sense have no currency. Good intentions alone are deemed sufficient, and never mind those bothersome second-order effects.

        1. Just spend some time working in a restaurant, you’ll learn about second-order effects…

  3. With downtown office vacancy at a record 35.6%, more restaurants are shuttering while Mayor Katie Wilson responds to fleeing businesses with one word: “Bye.”
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    Let me make a prediction on how this Socialist will address this issue specifically. She’s going to do exactly what Omar Fateh (a Somali Socialist) campaigned on in the Minneapolis, MN mayoral race (and came in second 6 points behind the winner). Minneapolis has the same exact problem. Commercial zones in the city are largely vacant, and the businesses that were there previously have either gone under or moved to the friendlier suburbs. Omar Fateh’s “genius” plan to accomodate this loss in revenue was to create a BRAND NEW TAX. He called it the “Vacancy Tax”. This would be in addition to property taxes. He believed that the building owners (who leased to various commercial businesses) must make up the difference of those businesses no longer being able to function. Businesses who owned their own property and no longer operate out of that location cannot hold onto the property as an investment. They must either sell, recruit new tenants, or pay the new “Vacancy Tax.”

    That’s my prediction.

    1. she will simply never live down that ‘bye’. be prepared ppl to see it crop up all over the place.
      and make note she did NOT truly fully *realize* what she was saying to ALL seattle businesses.
      and perhaps never ever will. THAT is the seattle ‘problem’.

    2. The same thing happened in metro Denver, when they applied a tax to the value of all good being stored in warehouses located therein! Businesses moved outside that area in droves, to avoid the tax, very similarly to Seattle, all the restaurants and businesses that moved outside the metro area’s jurisdiction, due to minimum wage hikes.

  4. you stooooooopid socialist byatch tw*t aka the “Bye” mayor that the stooooopid socialist voters elected.
    why? Why? WHY? WHYYYYYYYY ??????????
    its like they voted for someone whose platform was to rampage thru downtown in an Abrams tank
    destroying everything in sight.
    again, WHYYYYYYYYY ????????????

  6. One author described her as “Seattle’s own Democratic-Socialist miracle” and highlighted her past campaign for a higher minimum wage…which was a significant factor in the Bagel Blaze.

  7. She is who she is, a nepo baby who never had to worry about where the money was coming from. The blame lies entirely with the voters. The few intelligent ones have probably already left.

  10. I see the self-appointed Hall Monitor showed up first, to whine and snivel.
    Back in your hole, Karen.

  11. People like this Mayor are best described by the bad cat:

    “Communism and other branches of collectivism are the cold sores of the disaffected and anxious and there are always new ways to brand them as fashionable.” – El Gato Malo

  12. Allow me to state my prediction … the good Communist Mayor will soon announce the FIRST government bagel shop! Yes, there will be lines to get in … because it will be so … popular. Bagel lines. Don’t complain comrades.

  13. It puzzles me how these people get in power.
    Yeah, there are those that voted for them.
    Are there not people with some sense of how the business world works?
    Do they know or think about it, to say you have to have a profit in the business, other than that you are out, no but, no nothing.
    They use the word capitalism, this is a communist invention.
    Its bloody free enterprise.
    Growing up in a country run by communists, capitalism was the worst of anything. To this day the word gives me the creeps.

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