Seattle’s socialist mayor is apparently so focused on her leftist agenda that she does not care millionaires are fleeing Washington state due to pressure from taxes.
During a recent event at Seattle University, Mayor Katie Wilson said, “I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown, and the ones that leave, like, bye,” Fox News reported Friday.
Attendees laughed and applauded her remarks, and she continued by stating her office was looking at “what our options are in terms of progressive taxation.”
One social media user who criticized Wilson for her remarks wrote, “Love how these liberal Mayors think they don’t need rich people in their cities. Who’s going to bring in the money if you keep chasing them away?”
Jason Mercier of the Mountain States Policy Center said, “A couple of Beatle songs come to mind. The first is ‘Taxman,’ and then Seattle
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