Tammy Morales has lived in public housing, she knows what it’s like to be raised by a mom holding down three jobs, and she has made it her mission to “serve working families so they don’t have to struggle the way my family did.”
Unlike her opponent (the Amazon-backed, Seattle Police Department–employed Mark Solomon), Morales also has concrete plans to help those working families out. She wants to introduce a new city tax to make Seattle’s wealthiest pay a reasonable amount to help make this place livable, and if that comes in the form of a new head tax, fine. But it could also be an inheritance tax, Morales says, or a tax on CEOs who are excessively compensated, or a tax on second homes. “We can’t keep growing this city on the backs of working folks,” Morales says.