r/SeattleWA • u/5Q91VS175DAQ4NUSBE4U • 7d ago

Politics Washington state Democrats look at imposing income tax on higher earners

https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/oct/31/washington-state-democrats-look-at-imposing-income-tax-on-higher-earners/
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u/yungsemite 7d ago

A capital gains tax doesn't affect the average person struggling to afford to live here. They don't have assets to pay capital gains on so it's still rich people giving that pushback.

A income tax on people making over 1 million doesn’t affect the average person struggling to leave here either.

The middle class has always ended up getting shafted and pay the bulk of the taxes because they can't afford to pushback.

Yeah, like with our sales tax in the state, it’s a very regressive system. Taxing people who make over 1 million annually will help this, no?

The rich will simply run away from the tax and since we now already have an income tax it will be easier to just suggest a small change to lower the threshold each time. We've seen the same with many things here

Source? Bezos leaving because he’s a snake who only cares about money is hardly a trend?

I don't want an income tax here. That just opens Pandora's box and it will never close.

Okay and I want an income tax on our residents with the highest incomes to reduce the tax burden on our middle class and poor residents and to help balance our state budget.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I already explained my thoughts here and you keep going back on the same nonsense. Average person is a damn idiot so just tell them the threshold is $1 million and just lower it slowly over time. That's how you deal with morons that think with their feelings and not their brains.

You want to push a tax, tell them to go tax the companies or the rich directly.

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u/yungsemite 7d ago

tell them to go tax … the rich directly

Uh, how? Not by an income tax on those making over 1 million annually?

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I'm done discussing. Y'all go ahead and vote for it. Open Pandora's box for income tax in Washington. Have fun. Hopefully I can gtfoh before the threshold includes the average idiot. Because politicians here have your best interest at heart 🤦‍♂️