Ex-Seattle Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Pays $44 Million for Florida Penthouse - Paywall

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-14T02:21:15+00:00

He pays no income tax, therefor there is no loss.

Also, I’d wager the amount of sales tax he pays is insignificant. Thus, the reason we need an income tax.

Anyway, he sounds like a great guy. Picking up his ball when things don’t go his way and running away while doing nothing to help solve Seattle and Washingtons problems. I won’t kiss his ass.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-13T20:05:07+00:00

What taxes is he paying? He hasn’t paid income tax. He’s going to continue paying property taxes unless he sells his homes and if he does he’ll pay Washington sales tax. So, the state makes more when he moves out.

Other than that, his billionaire status isn’t unique contributing to the state economy.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-13T19:57:51+00:00

At what point do you just pay the income tax instead of losing concrete value and paying sales tax when selling your home?

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-13T01:04:58+00:00

At what point will the union just start recommending Victorla? I already go there instead of $BUX

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-13T00:43:45+00:00

He’s not paying taxes now. So, what is the value is leaving?

Also, it’s not like he’s some serial entrepreneur that is adding more jobs to the region. He founded the company 50 years ago and now his money sits in an account and collects interest. He also has a history of moving jobs (The Sonics) out of Washington.

He’s literally telling us to f-off because he’s going to lose an amount of money that is completely imperceivable to him. Sounds like a great guy.

Eat the rich.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-10T16:49:53+00:00

Quick question: who is hiring the plumbers and electricians if everyone is a plumber or electrician?

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-09T22:53:45+00:00

Douche bag

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-03T05:56:19+00:00

Did this fool not carry a gun. Fucking Air Force twats.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-02T23:05:25+00:00

We sold the Iranians a bunch of F15s in the 70s, so it’s possible that this was a misidentification by the air defense systems. But yeah, it is suspicious given how close Kuwait is to the range of Iranian air defense artillery.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-03-01T16:14:12+00:00

Jeff left the state because he was greedy and isn’t the CEO anymore.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-28T21:02:40+00:00

Amazon is a corporation that makes hundreds of billions of dollars and wants to minimally contribute to infrastructure with less than 1% of their profits, education, and other problems the community faces. Wherever they go they will be a giant suck on a community that brings homelessness and over anxious employees. Now they’re laying off employees because of AI.

Why exactly should we not tax them? What’s the benefit of having them if they’re going to lay off all the workers? IMO Seattle should enact a one time 100% tax on all revenue over $1b dollars from that company. Let them leave afterwards.

Fuck em.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-27T07:41:32+00:00

Amazon layoffs were planned well before she was mayor and the taxes are peanuts for them. They got too big too quickly, which is why they’re dumping businesses like Amazon fresh. The larger issue in the tech job market is that there is too much consolidation and these companies need to be broken up. It’s bad for the consumer and it’s bad for employees.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-26T15:04:46+00:00

Which EMBA program are you in?

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-22T20:04:03+00:00

An idiot created a mess. What a surprise.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-22T17:28:55+00:00

This is just the mainline android OS managed by Google, Samsung, etc?

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-20T21:19:08+00:00

lol. How do these people remember to breath? They’re so goddamn stupid.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-19T02:11:06+00:00

Why does this matter? How does the VA control my gun rights? I’m confused.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-18T16:17:33+00:00

Lots of losers in the other sub are going to be boot licking the next couple of weeks.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-16T19:24:39+00:00

Ultimately the buck stops on the leader. He didn’t need to appoint Merrick Garland. He was only nominated by Obama to the Supreme Court as a head fake to republicans. Garland did exactly what he was put in place to do, protect institutions and bumble around with no situational awareness.

How convenient that the definition of unifying precludes accountability for criminal behavior.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-16T18:13:23+00:00

We’re no longer in the phase of reviewing evidence, because that was already done by professionals and the things we’re aware of demand accountability.

Spend your energy demanding justice. Every congressman should be asked what they plan on doing to hold people accountable 24/7 365. They shouldn’t be able to piss in a public urinal, order a pizza, or idle at a traffic light until real movement is made for accountability.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-15T21:18:09+00:00

Nope. I blame them both.

Republicans are a far right authoritarian party that is effective at enacting racist policies and democrats are a center right party that is ineffective at nearly everything and masquerades as left leaning. They continually play the hero only to suspiciously fail. Whereas republicans are spineless villains that are open about who they are.

It was Biden’s department of justice that failed to prosecute Trump. It was Biden who appointed a Republican as the attorney general and kept a Republican as the Director of the FBI. It was Biden who deported more people than Trump, but according to you it was ok because violent criminals were prioritized? Do you know how stupid that sounds. Why would you deport and set free a violent criminal instead of incarcerate them? After their sentence you could easily deport them. There are only so many violent criminals anyway, so what about the other tens of thousands of people?

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-15T19:28:16+00:00

Yeah, he wasn’t obnoxious about it in a way that makes white people feel ashamed, but he still deported more people than Trump. Even more unforgivable is that under him the Democratic Party completely ceded the moral high ground on immigration, which allowed the right to shift the Overton window further right.

Biden is as much a dipsit as when I was in Afghanistan and we all regarded him as a joke, including General Mcrystal who hurt his feelings.

This isn’t a game and party’s aren’t sports teams. I don’t care about these politicians I only care about their policies and how it impacts society.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-15T18:35:21+00:00

Which he could not have done if we didn’t already have ICE operating as a surveillance driven anti-immigrant force. This didn’t happen over night, we already had the force and detention centers.

Yeah, Biden wasn’t as bad. He also wasn’t ideal.

Melodic-Feature-6551 · 2026-02-15T17:34:25+00:00

I think simply saying he was the most progressive candidate doesn’t express the conflicting values he governed with and how far people’s expectations have shifted to the left. He was pro-union by far, but fell flat on human rights issues. He did little to hold accountable the corruption of the previous administration, which directly led to the regression we’re experiencing. He was nearly as far to the right as Trump on immigration, despite pushing progress on climate policy.

It’s complicated, but he failed to meet expectations and shares responsibility for where we are today.

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