EXCLUSIVE: In 2025, Starbucks sent a letter to Gov Bob Ferguson warning him that passing higher taxes would have "unintended long-term economic consequences that will disproportionately impact Washington-based businesses."
The coffee giant urged him to veto the bills because "imposing new taxes on certain elements of our staffing, IT, security, and advertising functions that are based out of our local headquarters would dramatically increase costs, putting us at a competitive disadvantage to companies based in other states."
The company warned that imposing a new B&O surcharge "will also make it more difficult for us to make vital investments in Washington."
Ferguson ignored the warning. Starbucks announced it was expanding to Nashville earlier this year, laying off employees in Washington and hiring 2,000 people in Tennessee
Q: "What would you say now to Tim Walz?”
Tom Homan: "I can't say it on air, but who pardons a child rapist? That's how much he supports illegal aliens over U.S. citizen children."
Hunter Biden: “If you can’t say you’re for a single-payer healthcare system and that you are for healthcare for everyone, whatever way you get there, I don’t know how you’re gonna win in the Democratic Party…”
🚨 Here is the full 53 minutes of my crew and I exposing New York fraud, we uncovered over $190,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters use the elderly and needy to commit fraud through adult and personal home care scams in NYC. Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give $ kickbacks to those who enroll. Like it and share this video, the fraud must STOP.
We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for fraudsters to steal from our pockets. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. Time is up.
EXPOSE IT ALL AND END THE FRAUD.
SOURCE: Gov Bob Ferguson & his wife attended the last Seattle World Cup game in the VIP lounge seats-$4,500 a seat.
King County Exec Girmay Zilahay was there with his family as well
"Easy to hate the rich, yet use their largesse to avoid the masses."
#Uncommitted '26 OF/1B Malikhi Emery-Henderson (@MalikhiEmery) from @WVCKnightsBSB crushed a 3-run homer last night for the Pippins. He finished the game 2-for-3 with 4 RBI, 2 walks, and a stolen base.
He tied for the NWAC lead last spring with 9 HR for the Knights (1.027 OPS).
Taxes will increase the landowners will be forced to to sell or have the city foreclose., the city will assume ownership. Rinse & repeat until you control housing.. have your friends live in the premium real estate. Let the rest fall into decay.. turn the entire city into a slum, blame the rich oligarchs for leaving the city to rot.. Basic Communism playbook. Will take 20 years.
"Does the Administration consider Haiti a safe country?"
@StephenM: "For Haitians? Absolutely. Haitians live in Haiti... It'd be crazy for us to say that Haitians couldn't live in Haiti. It's their country."
TRUMP: The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist — All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP
NEW: Gov Ferguson has created an Economic Development Council to "guide economic policy to ensure Washington remains a great place to do business"
Are they going to tell you to get rid of your income tax and all the other taxes and regulations that are chasing away businesses?
BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, just BLOCKED the Trump admin from using a social security database system to verify voter eligibility.
We have foreign judges telling us we can’t secure our elections
What are we even doing?