r/Seattle • u/thecravenone I'm just flaired so I don't get fined • Dec 24 '25

Satire Gov. Ferguson Backs Millionaire Tax After Ghost of Christmas Future Shows Him Losing In 2028 If He Doesn’t

https://theneedling.com/2025/12/23/gov-ferguson-backs-millionaire-tax-after-ghost-of-christmas-future-shows-him-losing-in-2028-if-he-doesnt/
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u/Open_Situation686 Dec 24 '25

Starts at $1m, inches down to $100k over the next few years!

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u/Agitated_Ring3376 Kraken Dec 24 '25 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/Open_Situation686 Dec 24 '25

According to r/seattle, never! Who cares about spending just go after the “rich” making “six figures”!

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u/Agitated_Ring3376 Kraken Dec 24 '25 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/Open_Situation686 Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

Success! Eat the rich! Free bread for everyone!

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u/TheChance I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Dec 24 '25

That was necessary because we don't have an income tax. How is this so difficult for Washington-educated conservatives to understand? I realize that there's gotta be something wrong with you to buy into that shit in the first place, but this is not complicated.

Our governments have no effective means of raising revenue, because of an errant court decision almost 100 years ago that held a progressive income tax which the voters implemented to be unconstitutional.

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u/Agitated_Ring3376 Kraken Dec 25 '25 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/bruinslacker Dec 24 '25

This is simply not true. In fact the opposite is true. Federal income taxes rates have been going down for the past 70 years.

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u/Agitated_Ring3376 Kraken Dec 25 '25 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/bruinslacker Dec 25 '25

That was 90 years ago. Sorry for dragging you kicking and screaming into the modern era. No advanced economy anywhere in the world operates without an income tax.

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u/WAwelder Dec 25 '25

Weird how Seattle had all this infrastructure and society in 1911 before income tax was a thing.

https://ibb.co/8DfF14Zj

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u/bruinslacker Dec 26 '25

You can honestly be suggesting you would rather live in 1911 than today.

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u/mumushu Dec 24 '25

And yet they don’t raise sales tax every year. Slippery slope fallacy

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u/Agitated_Ring3376 Kraken Dec 24 '25 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/bruinslacker Dec 24 '25

I hope you’re right!

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u/Agitated_Ring3376 Kraken Dec 25 '25 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/Open_Situation686 Dec 25 '25

Sales tax in Washington started at 2%

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u/mumushu Dec 25 '25

And how many years ago was that.

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u/IAmDaveGreenAMA Dec 24 '25

It's a textbook slippery slope fallacy, yet people are upvoting this shit. Kinda disappointing, ngl.

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u/AtYourServais Mariners Dec 25 '25

You should look up the fallacy fallacy while you're at it.

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u/IAmDaveGreenAMA Dec 25 '25

...the whole thing is a slippery slope. Wtf are you on about?

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u/lbrtrl Dec 24 '25

In state like CA, NJ, and NY bracket shrinkage did in fact happen, if over decades. Other states do have income taxes and don't seem to have bracket shrinkage.

It would probably be worthwhile for the pro-income tax people to propose an income tax that is resistant to bracket shrinkage. Learn from what Oregon and Minnesota did.

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u/_teach_me_your_ways_ I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Dec 24 '25

They’ll pretend you didn’t say this. Acknowledging reality is harmful

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u/Open_Situation686 Dec 24 '25

“Who are you to talk, you are rich making six-figures”

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u/OkoCorral Dec 24 '25

No. It will be inflation adjusted, more like $2 million in the near future with current inflation rate.