How’s the liquor level in your beer hat? Time for a peach schnapps refill? You finally made it past all that fucking boring garbage to the main event: the city council races! There’s no better place to start than with West Seattle’s incumbent council member, Lisa Herbold, who last year found herself at the center of what has become the defining moment for the current council: the 2018 “head tax” debacle.
In case you were unconscious: Last year, Herbold and all the other council members passed a modest per-employee tax on the city’s largest employers, like Amazon, to fund homeless services. This so-called “head tax” (sometimes called the “Amazon tax”) was a good thing! The tech giants that have made billions while exacerbating our housing crisis and deepening inequality would finally pitch in to help out. But the last thing Amazon founder and libertarian turd-licker Jeff Bezos wants to do is pitch in and help out. He fought back and, since billionaires always get whatever the fuck they want in America, the council quickly revoked the head tax.