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"the wealthiest Washingtonians have gotten out of paying what they truly owe in state and local taxes" State taxes were 0% - They paid 0%
by ajaimk 3y ago
"the wealthiest Washingtonians have gotten out of paying what they truly owe in state and local taxes"
State taxes were 0% - They paid 0%
- EscapeFromNY 3y agoWhat point are you trying to make? Do you think the wealthiest Washingtonians truly owe 0% to society?
- burlesona 3y ago“Owe” is an important word meaning a legal obligation. If the law says you owe nothing then you owe nothing. That doesn’t mean the law is just! It means we need to fix the law.
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- EscapeFromNY 3y agoThe word truly in "truly owe" is the clue that they're not talking about a legal obligation, but an ethical one. And it's an article about a law that was changed, so if what they truly owe changed from one year to the next the sentence wouldn't make any sense.
- hackernewds 3y agoWasn't the Seattle allure 0% state taxation? Seems uncouth to backtrack on it. If we're discussing fairness it's worth contrasting how the tech industry in Seattle or its significance were prior to this.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoThey obviously meant ethically owe, not legally owe. It turns out that "owe", like many words in our fine language, has multiple meanings.
- pc86 3y agoIt's a ridiculous phrase especially when you're talking about taxes. It's just meant to rile up proletariat so they can be mad at those big bad billionaires over something else (or more accurately, the same thing again). It's just nonsense propaganda.
- runarberg 3y agoThe Urbanist is an advocacy journal, off course it is a propaganda. > The Urbanist serves to examine and influence urban policies by promoting and disseminating ideas, creating community, and improving the places we live. Founded in 2014, the organization provides daily news coverage and opinion in the advocacy journalism tradition along with social and educational events. The Urbanist is based in Seattle and registered as a nonprofit 501(c)(4) entity. However it is not nonsense. We proletariat read the Urbanist because it provides us with valuable propaganda. It may rile us up—and perhaps that is intended—but it also provides things in context, and in this case it provides us with data—evidence if you will—that what we have always said turns out to be true. The rich can afford to pay more taxes, the state would benefit, and that the taxation laws until now have been extremely unfair.