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[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@wsdot_traffic Updates?

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@LangReynolds @loganb @skaushik100 Convert? That bridge is over 100+ years old. Also, you'd seriously reroute all fire & ambulance over to Fremont? The lowest bridge over the Ship Canal w/the most openings? WTF?

[Interesting Times @FreeTheBee22]

@breccastoll "Bad landlords" will include anyone whose property the communists wish to confiscate.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@brian_mac8419 @CaptMarkKelly That's not what's keeping people from owning homes. And nobody is renting at double the mortgage unless you're looking at the purchase price back in 1985.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@CaptMarkKelly The New York Times may have published this in response to you - corporate home ownership actually doesn't live up to the hype. You may need to talk to your staff about getting better data. https://t.co/yJqsKvvj7s

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@benmaritz Were you able to pull the raw data from the KCBA website?

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@benkershner @benmaritz “Is being evicted”? He would only get evicted if he refused to leave and needs the sheriff to help him move.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@SHED_MAN_ @benmaritz Rents are flat in Seattle and have been for 6-7 years.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@columbiacity @stevemur If you’re sharing that to say it’s not true, you either aren’t actually following the law (you’re exempt it else acting like it doesn’t apply to you), or you have a large cushion of tech bro/trust fund money shielding you from economic disaster. Unlike true mom & pops.

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

A baby otter at a British sanctuary, who was initially afraid of water, gradually becomes accustomed to it and learns to dive thanks to a device devised by zookeepers that requires it to enter the water to catch fish.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@bennetthaselton @PeakSeattle That’s what I was guessing - she could have been born overseas to American parents.

But there are far more naturalized citizens than the first scenario - about 5x to 8x more. So it’s a rational assumption & conclusion since she gave no further public clarification on the matter

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@minty_hawk @SEIU I didn’t realize SEIU represents municipal employees. They rep health care workers mainly.

[MintyHawk @minty_hawk]

Whether a finding is 'right-wing' isn't a property of the finding. It's a guess about who's pointing at it. The Solicitor General's email exists either way. The Supreme Court ruling stands either way. The regressivity numbers don't move based on labels. Here are the OP's 3 claims, on the merits. /1

[BurnhamNews @TBCNewsAction]

@minty_hawk Not to mention they are going to hyperscale headcount at the DOR before they do anything. And DOR employees are basically former loan sharks. Heartless, callous, and unforgiving. Further research here:

https://t.co/BO84ufDxVF

[MintyHawk @minty_hawk]

The income tax doesn’t collect a dollar until 2029. SB 6346 takes effect January 1, 2028; first returns and payments are due in 2029. Whatever the small business cut is, it isn’t “thanks to” revenue that doesn’t exist yet.

It’s funded from general fund spending, against a supplemental budget that added $2.3B (11.5% over the prior biennium) and pulled $800M from the rainy day fund.
Also worth noting: small business pass-throughs (LLCs, S-corps, partnerships) with household income over $1M ARE the subject to the income tax. The same bill (SB 6346) cuts B&O credits at one end of small business and taxes net income at the other.

Also: the same legislative package rolled back the 2025 estate tax increase (SB 6347, wealthy estates) and accelerated the expiration of the 0.5% B&O surcharge on businesses with $250M+ revenue (large businesses). “Small business” is the messaging frame. The beneficiaries are broader.

Happy Small Business Week.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@minty_hawk It would be a longer list if you were to compile the boneheaded "act first, think later" political wins passed by the Legislature then walked back or repealed later. Long Term Care tax, police pursuit law, fumbles in responding to the Blake decision, punishing Estate tax, etc.

[Repositioning Play @GoodGuyGuaranty]

SPONY - plaintiff in the newest court challenge to rent control - just filed their opposition papers to the city's motion to dismiss.

Nearly 21,000 words and worth reading. A kitchen-sink filing for a case that, I suspect, will land at SCOTUS.

And my prediction below came true.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@chromedupcheeks @benmaritz Also she sees several concerts per month. $$$

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@Schilted @jayparsons It depends on how extreme the "Renters rights" are in terms of financial loss. Right now, investors are fleeing where I live (Seattle) due to overly punitive laws resulting in unsustainable losses. Once burned, it takes a long time to convince investors to risk capital again.

[Yellow Brick Road @MaryJoeBob]

@minty_hawk You've said you're in the 36th. Have you done Julia Reed?