Nat Taylor

Loved by Jesus. Dad. Husband. Lawyer. Nerd. Seattle sports fan.

[Viet Q Nguyen @VietQNguyen]

Let me get this straight: the president of the Seattle Education Association, is on paid administrative leave for grabbing an autistic third-grade student hard enough to leave bruising, throwing a marker that struck the student, and tossing a book that hit another student.

She has now led her teachers to strike, which is illegal under Washington State law - despite the fact that Seattle teachers have a median salary of about $114,000, plus benefits, plus three months off. That is about 30% more than the median salary in Seattle.

And under Washington State law, these teachers may claim unemployment benefits WHILE THEY STRIKE.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

Just ask your colleague Brittney Griner how “trash” America is.

Calling America trash huh?
Let me know when your season is over, I’ll buy your ticket and we can go together to counties like China, Russia, IRAN, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, & Turkey.
Forget about calling them trash, I would like to see if you can even criticize those regimes!!
You and your family members would be thrown in jail, tortured to death, and raped.
People have NO idea how lucky and blessed they are to be in a country like America.
I’m not saying America is perfect, but trust me, you don’t wanna see the other side.

[Nat Taylor @nat_taylor]

@WendyAlsup After our dog took off the first time I did some research we invested in this. https://t.co/TzbWV0hSEX

[Nat Taylor @nat_taylor]

@hjluks How do you set your HR zones?

[Nat Taylor @nat_taylor]

@vkhosla I love to see this “stay out of the way” humility from the @Seahawks new owner, who is nevertheless clearly a brilliant man. It ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

[TreVeyon Henderson @TreVeyonH4]

I’ve heard the saying that “God gives his toughest battles to his toughest soldiers.” But when I see the disciples that Jesus chose and suffered for His name sake, I don’t see Him choosing the “toughest soldiers”, as I learn about men and women in the past and even today who have laid down their lives for Jesus, once again I don’t see God choosing His “toughest soldiers.” But I see a strong and mighty God choosing weak men and woman, and empowering them by His Holy Spirit to face some of the toughest battles and be used for His glory.

I once thought I was a “tough soldier” until I met Jesus, I then realized that I’m so weak without Him, and apart from Jesus I can’t do anything. I need Jesus daily. The only way that I can truly become who God wants me to be and truly do what God wants me to do, is not by my power not by my might, but only by The Spirit of The Living God. Thank you Jesus.

[Nat Taylor @nat_taylor]

@letsgowa @KirstiMiller30 this is absolutely untrue in Washington State high school athletics. Under WIAA rules, trans women / biological men can participate in women’s sports based solely on self identification.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

👏🏼

[Nat Taylor @nat_taylor]

@redsteeze We’re not all insane here in Seattle.

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

FIFA just used VAR to replay a player flopping and gave him a yellow card.

NBA and NFL need to implement this ASAP.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

People seem to be misinterpreting why Seattle is fucked. Seattle is not fucked because they over-regulate big business or because of the “millionaire’s tax.” They’re fucked because they overregulate small and mid-sized businesses which caused a massive localized inflationary spiral that is forcing out big businesses because labor costs are too high

Seattle massively over regulated the service sector by imposing gargantuan minimum wages on restaurants and delivery apps + implementing a zillion other regulations that caused service sector costs to soar. Seattle’s housing prices are actually *declining* but their inflation rate has been 1-1.5 points higher than the national average despite reduced housing costs. This is caused mainly by food service prices rising at 7% a year due to Seattle’s minimum wage policies and excessive service sector regulations. Inflation in Seattle is now 5% and nominal wage growth is 3%, meaning real wages fell 2% in the last twelve months

High local inflation forced big companies to pay artificially high wages because highly paid corporate workers expect wages to keep up with living costs. On top of that, Seattle has a payroll tax that almost exclusively applies to huge companies. Those big companies are therefore paying insane wages to do business in Seattle, whereas if they relocated, they could pay people the same real wages relative to local cost of living and save tens of millions a year in corporate labor costs alone

But here’s the thing: Because Seattle overregulated their small and midsize businesses, those businesses are now operating on razor thin margins and are reliant on highly paid corporate workers who can pay exorbitant prices in order to stay in business. So when a corporate office relocates out of Seattle, all of the local restaurants collapse because they no longer have a customer base who can afford the prices they have to charge due to Seattle’s regulatory environment

What this means is that as corporations cut payroll in Seattle the entire city’s service sector is imploding, which has resulted in localized stagflation. Their whole labor market is quickly evaporating and now they have 5.5% unemployment, 5% inflation, and -2% real wage growth.

None of this has anything to do with the “millionaire’s tax” because the companies are leaving before the people do. Why would companies care about a tax on ultra high incomes that doesn’t impact their cost of doing business?

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

The unconstitutional WA State income tax could be financially devastating to Washington based charitable organizations.

@joewallin outlines what tax advisors are telling clients about charitable giving in his blog below:

Excerpt:

“Every competent tax attorney walking a client through a domicile change is going to say some version of the same thing:
Stop giving to Washington charities. Redirect your giving to charities in your new state. It will help your case.
That advice will be given thousands of times over the coming years. Multiply it across every founder who exits, every executive who retires, every early employee who hits liquidity. The pipeline of major gifts to Washington institutions doesn't just shrink — it reorients.”

https://t.co/6qxWe8tNHp

[Steve Gordon @stevemgordon67]

On the mark from @SaraENelson. The elected majority in WA & Seattle seem dead set on choking out the vibrant business ecosystem that has developed & thrived here for the last 35 years.
This is NOT a drill. People are leaving NOW. Willful blindness is not a governing principle.

[Nat Taylor @nat_taylor]

@DavidDack You start with an Apple watch, and then realize you need the enhanced data that only a Garmin provides.

[Nat Taylor @nat_taylor]

@TripleNetTyler Flying *to* Vegas on @AlaskaAir. Passengers were raucous and no one paying attention for safety briefing. Flight attendant then announces "if everyone isn't quiet for the safety briefing, no drinks for you." Everyone instantly shuts up. Brilliant.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Public Records request shows the income tax wasn't legislation. It was a lawsuit disguised as a bill — designed by the AG's office, for the legislature, against the voters.

1. THE REAL GOAL: Overturn the income tax ban to enable a BROAD progressive income tax

"the overall legislative goals, it seems to me, are to have our Supreme Court overturn Culliton v. Chase."
— AGO Senior Counsel Chuck Zalesky, Jan. 19 email

2. THEY SCHEMED TO BLOCK VOTERS FROM HAVING A SAY

"I did not see an emergency clause... Without one, someone could try to subject the bill to a referendum."
— Solicitor General Noah Purcell, Dec. 11 email

3. THE AG'S OFFICE ACTIVELY COLLUDED TO HELP DEFEAT RATHER THAN DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION

"The Attorney General's role is to defend the constitution, not help the legislature find ways to violate it."
— Jackson Maynard, Citizen Action Defense Fund

4. THEY ADMITTED THE TAX WAS PROBABLY ILLEGAL — AND DID IT ANYWAY

"the proposed tax would fall squarely within the type of taxes that our Supreme Court has invalidated"
— AGO memo, Dec. 11

The AG's own lawyers warned Ferguson the tax violated the Constitution.

5. THE AG OFFICE ADVISED SCRUBBING PRARTS OF THE BILL TO HIDE THE TRUE TARGET

"the better course is to eliminate it (the marriage penalty) so that the case can focus on Culliton"
— Senior AAG Dan Jensen, Jan. 21 email

40 years of one party rule
The income tax is coming for you
Olympia doesn’t need no stinking constitution….

https://t.co/sJTR7S8Y7R

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is wrong about most social issues, but she's right about this one. I give her a lot of credit for speaking out. Very, very few politicians--Republican or Democrat--are willing to do so.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

@RonaldJMoeller Definitely. I personally think we should have crushed their ballistic & nuke capes, but Trump has a plan, he has definitely earned the confidence of any clear eyed observer.

[U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell @SenMcConnell]

Joe Kent testified before the Senate one year ago that Iran and its terror proxies threatened U.S. servicemembers in the Middle East. He said it would be an honor to return to the fight against terrorism, and he pledged to lead with integrity and accountability. The virulent anti-Semitism of his resignation letter makes it clear that Mr. Kent is incapable of upholding these pledges, and those who mistake its baseless and incendiary conspiracies for brave truth-telling are only fooling themselves. Isolationists and anti-Semites have no place in either party, and certainly do not deserve places of trust in our government.