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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
Your periodic reminder that wage theft is the largest form of theft in the US, more than all other forms of theft COMBINED And states/cities do NOTHING about it even while paying cops overtime to harass and maim homeless people taking donated clothes from Goodwill
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Sadé - John's sister. Fundamentally Black
@Sadenochill
How is this less than $19k for 14 years of overtime pay theft? Is it yearly? Even if she was making $9/hr at 12 hrs a week, she'd be out $79k over 14 years. twitter.com/NorCalFF15/sta…
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
This is the fault of
@WAHouseDems
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@lauriejinkins2
who control the House & write the rules Write better rules to increase the Legislatures effectiveness When Dems make govt more effective it shows voters we get things done, increasing votes for Dems, creating a virtuous cycle!
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Rep Julia Reed
@RepJuliaReed
While these speeches are happening, the clock is ticking on and bills are quietly dying. In the House at least there is no rule that allows a simple majority to close debate, so an indefinite number of speakers can speak #waleg
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
I'm all for us having a state dinosaur, bird, rock, sport, pizza, drink, tree, bowtie But for these bills to take up more than 15 min is ridiculous given the opportunity cost in our stupidly short legislative sessions People suffer because the legislature debates dead reptiles
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Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley
Hold onto your butts, it looks like we're getting a state dinosaur. HB 1020 is on the Senate run calendar for this afternoon. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Bi
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
This is why so many people are cynical and angry about Seattle government
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Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley
NEW: Feedback on what to do with a final two block stretch of Bell Street overwhelmingly pushed the city to rethink vehicle access and turn the space over to people walking, biking, and rolling. That feedback has largely been set aside. theurbanist.org/2023/04/12/off
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Scott Alspach
@salspach
I'm so grateful for all of the work and coalition building that went into HB 1110 passing with strong bipartisan support this year. I can't help but wonder if similar legislation would have passed years ago if not for Rep. Pollet's obstruction in committee.
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Robert Cruickshank
@cruickshank
A lot of people deserve credit for HB 1110’s success this year. One of them is @twittysuch, who reminded #waleg there are consequences for failing to solve the housing and climate crisis.
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
If you are a Democrat in a legislature or city council and you are not prepared to go scorch earth on EVERY GOP proposal and all GOP colleagues, then you are aiding the sprint into fascism
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philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
"Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate" heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/mis
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Nia is looking for a full-time VC job✨⚡️🌙
@_johnsonator
People want to be on the coasts for a reason - the culture allows for more social freedoms. Sorry but no one is trying to live near people actively campaigning against the right to self-direct their lives. It’s not snobbery, the culture is objectively bad.
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isa watson
@isadwatson
Investors be like: “build in the middle of America! not in coastal cities.” No. As an unambiguously Black woman, I’m not living just anywhere in this country. Not to mention tending to my social wellness. Lax gun law states, nope. They be so tone deaf. twitter.com/notcapnamerica…
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Dave
@about_dave
Housing inflation did not spike in the 70s because of rising union wages. It spiked in the 70s because racists turned to downzonings in the wake or the fair housing act and we stopped building in the job centers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rig lewis.ucla.edu/programs/housi.
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Moses Kagan
@moseskagan
Replying to @roundhouse208
Wow This is why inflation got so bad in the 70s… effect will be limited this time due to lower level of private sector unionization.
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
Quite a flex to demand your classist & obscene demands be attributed to you.
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Scott Moore
@scottm00re
Replying to @typewriteralley
Hey Ryan if you’re going to quote me, use my name OK? For the bozos in your comments: the concept that local zoning decisions should be made locally is fundamental. Clyde Hill is fully built out. No one here wants multi family housing forced on us. We’re a small town.
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Laura Bassett
@LEBassett
Dianne Feinstein, 89, is MIA and has missed 60 of the 82 votes the Senate has taken this year, and her absence is holding up the confirmation of Biden's judicial picks at a really critical time. She needs to resign right now, not retire after the term.
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Dianne Feinstein Is MIA, and Her Absence Is Holding Up Judicial Confirmations
The 89-year-old senator has missed 60 votes of the 82 taken in 2023, at a critical time for Biden to be getting judges confirmed. She needs to resign right now.
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Rep. Jessica Bateman
@jessdbateman
Y’all we passed middle housing in Washington State!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🥳🥳🍾🍾🍾👏👏👏👏#Homes4WA
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The Urbanist
@UrbanistOrg
HB 1110, the middle housing bill, passed on a big bipartisan vote of 35-14 in the Senate. 🎉 Now the two chambers will have to decide how to proceed with two different bill versions. #Waleg @YesHomes4WA @jessdbateman @SenatorTrudeau
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Snippet of the roll call vote
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Dan Bertolet
@danbertolet
And WA's single-stair bill, SB 5491, passes the House 96-1! Big thank you to Senator Salomon for stepping up to act on this idea that was unfamiliar to most, up until recently a largely overlooked barrier to better apartment design. #Homes4WA app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Bi
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Dan Bertolet
@danbertolet
WA's single-stair bill awaits a House floor vote. It's been unanimous every vote so far. Downside: only requires state council to adopt code by 2026, then it's up to cities. Upside: nobody even knew what a single-stair building was like 5 minutes ago. lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
Income is not property. #WALeg needs to pass an income tax. 30yo legal analysis shows this, and it's time for
@WASenDemocrats
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@WAHouseDems
to pass a progressive income tax. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewconten
The most sensible view of income, one taken by a number of state courts before and after Culliton, adopted by the United States Supreme Court later in the 1930s, and alluded to in Justice Tolman's Stiner opinion upholding the B&O tax, is that "income" denotes something in action, something "coming in" to a person but not yet arrived. Conversely, "property" means a static asset that has already arrived and is in a person's pos-session. Thus, a property tax is a periodic tax on stationary wealth held at the time of assessment, and it may include a tax on money if that money is retained as an asset. In contrast, an income tax is levied against funds that flow to the person taxed,
The term property connotes a person's relationship to certain objects, a recognized right to use those objects; property also connotes those objects themselves as they stand in relation to a person, for example: "the bed is my property," and "the money in the mattress is my property." But income is not an object; income connotes movement, the movement of money or other things of value coming to a person. From an economist's standpoint, "It]he concept of income is meaningless unless a time period is specified. Income is a flow over time and will vary in amount with the time period chosen. Income is not property, and, when viewed correctly, an income tax could be characterized as an excise tax or as a tax in a class by itself, but an income tax is certainly not a property tax.
A band of one thousand horses is not fundamentally different from a band of two thousand, except in number, and the uniformity language of the state constitution might well require that ten thousand cattle be taxed at the same rate as one thousand cattle. • Horses and cattle are property when they are owned by a person, and so is money; but income flowing to a person is different from money held in someone's hands. • A dollar earned is appropriately taxed as income, but just once. When that dollar is placed in a mattress, it is property and can be taxed only by an intangible personal property tax (if the government can find it in the mattress). • Once the dollar is taken out of the mattress and placed in a bank, only the interest earned is taxed as income, again just once, as income flows to its recipient. Once held, either in a mattress or a bank account, that interest itself becomes static property that can be taxed only by means of a property tax.
If the Washington State Legislature makes another attempt to enact an income tax, the correct approach for Washington's court will be to face the issue head on by reversing the two mistaken views that income is property
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
Re: WA income tax: excise tax (levied on exercise of rights of ownership) is okay, why not tax income, which is the exercise of right to ownership of our time/intellect/bodies that produce property? Maybe Income isn't property but rather act that results in property ($ in bank)?
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
This is a Seattle policy failure.
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graffiti vandal 🗡☂️🌻 🍉
@cnspeckhardt
"I feel very grateful that I'm making that much (27k), that I have a home to live in, especially in Seattle. The unhoused population is really large, and that makes me even more grateful for the money that I am making." homelessness is here to scare us cnbc.com/2023/04/10/26-
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Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"
@PoulChapman
Re: WA income tax: excise tax (levied on exercise of rights of ownership) is okay, why not tax income, which is the exercise of right to ownership of our time/intellect/bodies that produce property? Maybe Income isn't property but rather act that results in property ($ in bank)?
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Scott Alspach
@salspach
Senate Dems are happy to approve a $100 million handout to drivers to reduce tolls on a single bridge in order to help the re-election campaign of an important senator but are hesitating to provide $200k to get social housing off the ground in Seattle.
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Tiffani wins social housing 🏡
@TiffaniMcCoy1
Sounds like Senator Jamie Pedersen is holding up this funding for the Seattle Social Housing Developer. Wrote an email back saying City of Seattle Voters should foot this bill. Seattle Voters taxes also help fund the State so, maybe he needs to be reminded about that. twitter.com/houseRneighbor…
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Jeffrey Duchin, MD @DocJD@mastodon.world
@DocJeffD
"From March 2020 through December 2021, US physicians experienced 622 more deaths than expected. There were no excess deaths among physicians after April 2021, coinciding with the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines." 1/2
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Excess Mortality Among US Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This cross-sectional study examines the death rates among active and nonactive physicians aged 45 to 84 years.
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