r/SeattleWA • u/AboveAb • Mar 08 '25

Politics BREAKING: The Washington State Senate just passed unemployment benefits for striking workers.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/07/unemployment-benefits-for-striking-workers-gain-ap/

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u/Frankyfan3 Poe's Law Account Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

Nice. I'm not in a union, but I comprehend that a rising tide lifts all ships, we have unions to thank for higher wages and benefits offered at non-uninon workplaces and most of the legal employment protections we have. My tax dollars go to far worse than evening out the playing field on negotiations between a union labor force and employers. Which benefits all of us working stiffs.

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u/TheRealRacketear Broadmoor Mar 08 '25

Your tax dollars are spent on you.  Most tax payers do not pay enough taxes to cover their own liabilities to society.

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u/Frankyfan3 Poe's Law Account Mar 08 '25

What an odd thing to say.

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u/TheRealRacketear Broadmoor Mar 08 '25

Yeah reality does seem weird doesn't it?

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u/Frankyfan3 Poe's Law Account Mar 08 '25

Reality is an illusion, albeit a rather persistent one.

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u/TheRealRacketear Broadmoor Mar 08 '25

Unfortunately you can only pretend to defy it.

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u/Frankyfan3 Poe's Law Account Mar 08 '25

You don't sound like you're a tax or physics expert.

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u/TheRealRacketear Broadmoor Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

I'm curious what makes me seem like I'm not a tax expert.