The fact that you can’t check into a hotel until 4pm when the day is basically over but have to check out by 10am the next morning should honestly be illegal.
Refusing to talk about "gang" violence only leads to more death. Ignoring the skin color of the young men shooting each other only guarantees more of them will die. It might make white Seattle progressives feel good about themselves, but it won't fix sh*t.
If you have a son or daughter who's starting to think that socialism is the answer to our problems, I want you to try something and report back:
Next time you talk, don't argue. Sit down, ask these questions, and just listen:
- When you say "socialism," do you mean that you want the government to pay for a bigger safety net like in Denmark, or that the government owns the means of production? Because those are two very different countries.
- You say the system is rigged. Who rigged it? And who should be handed the power to un-rig it?
- Who sets the price of bread? If not a single person or corporation, what causes that price to remain steady or go up?
- Can you name a country where the state took ownership of the means of production and the poor got richer?
- When borders open or the walls fall down, anywhere in the world, which direction do people run? Towards the free market system or the socialist system? And before the boundaries fell, which way were the guns pointed?
- Would you rather be poor today, or rich in 1900? By the way, only one of those has antibiotics.
- If you and I make a voluntary trade, and we both walk away happy, who got hurt?
- Someone has to decide what your work is worth. Would you rather it be you and the person paying you, or a bureaucrat with an army who has never met either of you?
Try having this conversation with your kids this week. Don't argue. Only listen. And if you want, call into my radio show and tell me how it went.
Seattle's political leaders are not serious people. They have never run anything of significance yet are thrust into a position of operating a city with some of the world's most significant companies; Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks and Boeing all have a large presence in Seattle, not to mention several other large tech companies such as Google and Meta.
Prior to becoming Mayor, Katie Wilson's only work experience was as an activist for a transit union, yet she counts the JumpStart tax as one of her "achievements".
The JumpStart tax has caused Seattle to have the highest commercial vacancy rate in the entire nation, decimating Seattle's downtown core and hollowing out the city's tax base.
Given the great advantages that Seattle has, it should be one of the most prosperous cities on Earth, with commercial real estate brimming with businesses who want to come here. Rather, the opposite is true. Businesses are looking for the exits because our city is being run by people with literally zero business experience and no understanding of how markets work.
HOLY SHT.. Rep. Brandon Gill just absolutely COOKED Democrats..
“160 years ago Democrats were asking us: ‘if it weren’t for slavery, who would pick our cotton?’”
“And today they’re asking a similar question, which is: ‘if it weren’t for mass migration, who would pick our avocados?’