Katie Wilson performed most strongly in her home district, district 3, winning by more than 16 percentage points.

Amazon’s CEO and Microsoft’s CEO collectively donated a half million to the campaign against I-1098. ballotpedia.org/Washington_I...

It doesn’t take very many signatures to put a business payroll tax on the ballot in Bellevue that funds popular public services like childcare or schools! Two can play this municipal arbitration game :)

Seattle is often the progressive leader that proves a policy works before the state follows. For example, Seattle raised the minimum wage before the state did. A business payroll tax at the state level is being considered because of its success in Seattle.

Half of all renters in Seattle are rent-burdened. That’s a quarter of all households.

Yes, the tech industry has been been the primary driver of Seattle’s economic and population growth, but they’ve consistently lobbied for politicians and policies that have constrained our housing supply, causing most people who are not software engineers or CEOs to be pushed into poverty.

And note that Amazon and the Chamber of Commerce spend about $2M on each Seattle election backing NIMBY candidates because those are typically the conservatives ones who support preserving our deeply immoral and regressive tax system which is a billion dollar+ subsidy to their payrolls and profits.

Business payroll taxes, like Seattle’s JumpStart, are typically deductible from a company’s federal taxes, so it’s not even clear that the current small tax on their Seattle compensation packages have a meaningful impact on their bottom line.

The absence of a progressive income tax in Washington State is an enormous subsidy to Amazon. They and other tech companies pay lower salaries to high skill workers here than they do in all the other major tech hubs (Bay Area, NYC, Boston, Northern Virginia) which all have income taxes.

Dedicate the center turning lane of every arterial to publicly funded healthcare and we’ve got socialist paradise.

It’s constrained housing supply *coupled with* wage inequality that causes rents to go up, and poverty, displacement, and homelessness to increase. Taxing wage inequality is one of the fairest ways to fund subsidized housing when the private market hasn’t responded yet with increased supply.

We can just replace the lost MHA revenue with a higher tax on wage inequality (increase Junpstart).

Once again, Roman Blethen is overlooked by his father.

Commissioner Hasegawa dual endorsed Wilson after the Primary and actively campaigned for Wilson.

Hope publicly owned pharmacies become part of the Mayor @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social food desert program.