“On this issue, I think tech will vote No,” Boyapati said. “It’s a question of ‘Do I pay the extra tax or move elsewhere?’”
Fucking leave already if you have no interest in contributing.
I would argue that this law does tend to unfairly target the tech sector which often pays their people in stock. This is compared to other professions who may make an equivalent or higher salary but will not be subject to the 7 percent tax.
That doesn’t seem quite fair. If we’re going to do this, we should have a 7 percent tax across the board for anything over 250k (or whatever) instead of strictly targeting a particular sector
The tech sector is responsible for the huge influx of people moving to the state, Seattle specifically. Our infrastructure was not able to handle that influx and is only now catching up, 2 decades later.
Tech came here because of our archaic tax laws that prevented an income tax from going through, I have zero empathy that this solution impacts them disproportionately.
I hear Florida is nice during hurricane season.
Won’t somebody please think of the billionaires?!?
If there was impartial and empirical evidence to show that the schools would not lose money by having this repealed.
And
That enough money was being donated by those with money to the schools.
Then I’d say repeal it. The school is getting their money. But I doubt anyone can demonstrate that. So have the tax. Don’t repeal it. Pay your fair share.