My take away from the mayor’s race debate: Neither Harrell or Wilson used the phrase tax, as an alternative saying “progressive income”. The phrases used embrace the time period “ask massive firms to pay…” when the right wording is “demand to pay”. Harrell famous nearly all of folks dwelling unhoused in Seattle got here from some other place. Each touted that Seattle must turn out to be a sprawling homeless housing challenge, funded by you guessed it “progressive income”. Wilson claimed with nothing to again it up that she would obtain extraordinary progress in turning Seattle right into a sprawling public housing challenge. Wilson proposed tax-paying for-profit housing homeowners ought to have hire will increase capped at 5%, lower than the rise of prices to personal and function rental housing, which aligns with transfering possession to tax dependent non-profits and the “Social Housing Developer”.. No drawback.. Simply preserve elevating the gathering of “Progressive Income”.
Joe Wall, Seattle
