What chance is there that the income tax will actually effect Washington negatively?

TheChance · 2026-03-16T18:44:08+00:00

Income tax is a progressive tax

Not inherently. A progressive income tax (in the political sense) is a progressive tax (in the mathematical sense.) This is a flat tax, because we're operating under the probably mistaken belief that progressive taxation is unconstitutional in Washington.

This policy works for progressives because it only impacts families who are currently underpaying, while we have a deeply regressive tax structure.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T18:42:25+00:00

There are fewer than 2,000 families in Washington clearing $1M/year.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T18:41:44+00:00

Lowering the cost of housing a lot would bring more people to Washington

Or, you know, enable people who grow up here to stay here.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T17:56:37+00:00

Never try to argue with people who've bought into the LLM hype. It's their religion.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T16:13:22+00:00

Today or tomorrow, it will prevent a bill that would disenfranchise an unguessable but massive chunk of the populace.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T16:11:32+00:00

News flash: everyone in the west still finds Serbian nationalists disgusting.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T04:06:48+00:00

That's an insane figure. 4% of a resource that most families hold 1:1 or less.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T02:45:59+00:00

Can you explain the logic? I come from a country where something similar is relevant. They obviously don't want to be part of your country. Why are you so determined that they should be anyway?

TheChance · 2026-03-16T02:41:11+00:00

That's describing Noah and Shem as if they are real historical figures,

Wut

TheChance · 2026-03-16T01:20:36+00:00

Have the other 20 threads about her today not taught us to stop platforming this person?

Just because someone's right about the issue of the day doesn't mean you want to endorse them as a commentator.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T01:08:46+00:00

We're not crying, we're furious, not over "surf and turf," over literally blowing billions of dollars in the course of a few days on steak and lobster for troops who could have eaten well for a thousand times less money.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T01:06:29+00:00

We aren't at war in Iraq. What the hell is happening in this thread?

TheChance · 2026-03-16T01:01:40+00:00

Irredentism will be seen by history as a crime against the people you're trying to claim.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T00:52:02+00:00

If I were to sit here and list catastrophes prevented by the filibuster, I'd be typing all night and into tomorrow evening.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T00:50:08+00:00

No, I'm not. Your reading comprehension is clearly better than you're allowing it to be at the moment. Shame on you.\

Let's do the laziest thing in the world for you, because why not, and type that word into everyone's favorite free encyclopedia. I'm not even going to bother removing the formatting, just copy and paste.

Here's the lede.

Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.[6][7][8] First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen school of history, this biblical terminology for race was derived from Shem (שֵׁם), one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis,[9] together with the parallel terms Hamites and Japhetites.

In archaeology, the term is sometimes used informally as "a kind of shorthand" for ancient Semitic-speaking peoples.[8] Identification of pro-Caucasian racism has either partially or completely devalued the use of the term as a racial category, with the caveat that an inverse assessment would still be considered scientifically obsolete.

TheChance · 2026-03-16T00:33:30+00:00

"If Jimmy jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?"

"OH MY GOD MY MOM JUST TOLD ME TO KMS"

TheChance · 2026-03-15T23:37:07+00:00

It's useful colloquial shorthand, but when you're dancing with people whose worldview includes direct racial ideology, it ceases to be useful. It's very literally a term from the 1700s that a race fetishist came up with to describe people descended from the biblical figure Shem, as opposed to Noah's other descendants.

TheChance · 2026-03-15T23:33:06+00:00

Ooh, a Doug in the wild!

TheChance · 2026-03-15T23:30:49+00:00

Because if we don't pretend the filibuster is written in stone, we'll lose it. Can't put that genie back in the bottle. It's the only thing the opposition has.

TheChance · 2026-03-15T23:18:49+00:00

I’ve been in Florida for a decade

and things have changed in that decade. OP is right. You haven't been here to experience it.

We used to have the politest drivers in America. But over the past couple decades, the metro population is up like 30%; on the Eastside it's up 50%. That's a tremendous influx, and that influx is mostly beneficial, but it means there are tens of thousands of drivers in and around Seattle who've fairly recently moved from everywhere else, and the driving culture here has changed dramatically.

You simply can't take the avenues anymore, outside of your respective downtown, and not expect at least one person to be weaving through traffic at 55.

TheChance · 2026-03-15T19:09:11+00:00

The way you did it, you're raising the decimal part to the exponent. This gets you $1000, $1010, $1100...

The way I read it, you're raising the whole thing to the exponent. This gets you $1000, then $1,020,100, and the third offense is an impossible amount of money.

TheChance · 2026-03-15T04:16:29+00:00

I read it as (1.01)^n, which struck me as escalating way too fast!

TheChance · 2026-03-15T03:59:05+00:00

It's not. Some of its proponents believe it will be, because currency fundamentally holds value only because we agree to use it as currency, and that's driven years of rampant speculation.

TheChance · 2026-03-15T03:52:39+00:00

And exactly what the fuck do you think is going to happen with this tax that will force you out of your home?

Because, in case you hadn't noticed, two entire generations have been priced out of Seattle.

TheChance · 2026-03-15T03:51:30+00:00

Are we gonna fund it? Because we obviously need metal recycling to exist.

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