Comments On: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349! by Goldy http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/02/how-much-are-you-paying-a-year-to-subsidize-washingtons-businesses-349 Comments On: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349! by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by Sugartit]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:50:10 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by Hernandez]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:25:01 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]>
Really? Every MSFT employee I've met here is a Washington resident, pays taxes here, invests in this community. Or are you some kind of nativist who only thinks people born here are residents?
Posted by Sugartit]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:29:22 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by sarah70]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:32:31 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]>
Fine, Microsoft, relocate to North Carolina. Have fun finding the 25,000+ skilled, experienced employees you'd lose in the process in an area without a vast array of competitors to poach from.

Or have fun trying to acquire 15 million square feet of office space in the Bay Area, with no possibility of selling or subletting the office space you left behind.

They aren't going anywhere. Cut them off.

Posted by Free Lunch]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:18:27 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]>
A bland puppet like Obama is largely irrelevant in this equation; it's either sustained mass protest to improve what's here, or start preparing for what's next.
Posted by Che Guava]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:02:36 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> $349? Wow, what a bargain to keep such amazing firms as AMZN, MSFT and BA right here in our own back yard.

Next time you barista monkeys see someone throw a crisp dollar bill in your tip cup, show some gratitude, it might be your rebate from one of the hundreds of thousands of well paid workers from one of these firms.
Posted by Sugartit]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:01:46 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]>
Part of why we've gotten away with underfunding education in this state for so long is that certain successful businesses have been able to recruit highly skilled employees from outside who are attracted by high pay and a particular quality of life here.
Posted by decidedlyodd]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:59:53 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> I think an Obama impersonator needs to write well and think well in order to pull it off. Like Obama on Twitter. Every tweet of his is (nearly) perfect grammatically and conceptually. Like he's got a whole team behind him.
This, not so much.
Posted by Sandiai]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:05:40 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:45:50 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]>
Since July 1, 2005, a business and occupation (B&O) tax exemption has applied to manufacturing fruits or
vegetables by canning, preserving, freezing, processing, or dehydrating fresh fruits or vegetables and to
wholesale sales by persons performing these activities when the sales are to buyers who transport the
goods out of Washington.


http://dor.wa.gov/Docs/Pubs/SpecialNotic…

So did they count Vista as a lemon then...?


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:31:20 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]>
It's nearly impossible to correct this without taxing income and/or wealth.
Posted by Goldy]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:10:19 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by erly]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:07:10 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09…
Posted by poptartpunk]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:03:40 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> subsidies, incentives, and investments with business are critical

Same grammatical mistakes as Gay Dude for Romney? AWWW he missed us!
Posted by Sandiai]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:03:33 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by Lester Freeman]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:58:16 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:53:28 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> B&O Tax Exemptions for Fruit and Vegetable Processors...

Any investigative journalist want to take a crack at that?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/…


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:46:54 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by anon1256]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:38:59 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by rob!]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:22:48 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by tiktok]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:19:08 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]> Posted by President Barack Obama]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:08:48 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Much Are You Paying a Year to Subsidize Washington's Businesses? $349!]]>
wow.

imagine how much crap art that no one wants you could pay "artists" to shit out with that kind of dough.....
Posted by Goldy is full of shit]]> Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:49:08 -0800 The Stranger