This week, we found out Bait Shop is looking for a new spot, learned which millionaires are suing over the Millionaires Tax, and heard how Eva Walker became a Mariners fan. You had feelings about all of it, and we loved reading most of them.
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Bait Shop Is Looking for a New Place
But Hopes to Stay on Capitol Hill
By Charles Mudede
Stranger senior writer Charles Mudede found out that Capitol Hill’s beloved Bait Shop is looking for a new home. Their current home—a beautiful, old, one-story brick building—is set to be demolished in the not-too-distant future, to make way for a 121-unit apartment building. The owner isn’t mad, he knows we need more density in the city. But he’s eager to find a new place to land, and you guys had so many suggestions.
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Dear Hendrix
In This House We Believe Cal Raleigh Is the MVP
By Eva Walker
Every month, Eva Walker, a KEXP DJ and one-half of the rock duo the Black Tones, writes a letter to her baby daughter, Hendrix, to share wisdom learned from her experiences—and her mistakes. This month, she explained how she became a Mariners fan, listening to games on the radio while putting Hendrix to bed.
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Who Are the Millionaires Suing to Stop Our New Millionaire’s Tax?
It’s a rogues’ gallery of plantation owners, real-estate developers, and Koch network tentacles.
By Hunter Pauli
After the Millionaires Tax was signed into law, a few millionaires are making their voices heard the best way they know how: A lawsuit. The plaintiffs are exactly who you would expect, and Stranger writer Hunter Pauli dug into the who’s who.
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From fuzz3289 on Reddit:
We really need to compare what WA is doing to what NYC is doing to understand the difference between Tax the Rich and Tax the Upper Middle.
This tax will start hitting tech workers, surgeons, and lawyers in good years and when they lower it to 500k$ (which many lawmakers in Olympia have been pretty open about) will hit those high skilled professions hard.
Meanwhile billionaire nepo babies are entirely unaffected, because they don’t work and don’t have income.
NYC is the opposite, taxing wealthy assets (second homes worth more than 5m$) which taxes people not for their income that year, but for wealth they horde. That tax will bring in shitloads of money in NYC.
Taxing income goes after high earners (people who actually contribute and have valuable skills), taxing inordinate wealth (second homes, the fucking YACHTS on lake Washington?, etc) goes after real wealth and still raises revenue for the state.
I’m not saying people earning 1m$ can’t pay a little extra, but don’t act like you’re taxing the rich, the really rich are getting off easy here and it’s kind of bullshit. Start at the top.
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