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Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million

Posted by WesMantooth <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=WesMantooth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 12:07:53

Howard Schultz, old CEO and founder of Starbucks (as we know it ) instantly announces he’s moving to Miami.

This is incredible but also annoying the rich progressives who helped create this progressive culture are fleeing to FL.

Uneducated Redneck Piece of Shit

WSJ: Red and blue states are growing further apart on income taxes

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 15, 2026, 11:54:05, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

"GOP-led states are looking to entice new residents with lower taxes, while Democratic-led states seek higher taxes on top earners to shore up budgets and social services."

Republican-led states are racing each other to flatten, cut and eliminate individual income taxes, with 23 states lowering their top income-tax rates since 2021....

Democratic-controlled states are moving the opposite way, pushing to increase taxes on top earners to combat inequality and plug budget holes....

The middle ground is quickly disappearing. In 2006, 15 states had top income-tax rates on wage income below 5% and just one exceeded 10%, according to the Tax Foundation, a group that favors lower rates and fewer breaks. Now, more than half of the states have gone below 5% and five others plus the District of Columbia are in double digits....

Jared Walczak, who analyzes state policy for the Tax Foundation, said he expects the divergence to continue as states pick one path or the other.

“I expect a hollowing out of the middle,” he said. “There will be very little that’s attractive about being broadly average.”

The article goes into detail on plans in some states, such as Missouri. This is typical, as in these comments about Washington state's new income tax.

“We value having millionaires and billionaires here. We value the jobs that the tech sector and biotech and aerospace and agriculture” bring, [the house majority leader] said. “But we also think that those very highest-income earners can do more to support the things that we need for our state to be a good place to live.”

Drew Stokesbary, the House minority leader, said the tax could spark capital flight and discourage the entrepreneurship that made Washington successful. He attributed the state’s fiscal challenges to excessive spending growth and said he worries that a millionaires tax could expand.

tldr. i assume almost all of blue state problems come down to absurd pensions right?*

Posted by Playoff Rondo <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Playoff+Rondo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 15, 2026, 16:30:20, in reply to "WSJ: Red and blue states are growing further apart on income taxes"

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Hail Trump

You'd have to haircut them by about half to get down to "absurd" levels. *

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 16, 2026, 8:44:04, in reply to "tldr. i assume almost all of blue state problems come down to absurd pensions right?*"

When something is too good to last; it won't.

Yeah…MO has been discussing reducing and eliminating the state income tax for the last several years

Posted by harb99 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=harb99' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 15, 2026, 13:05:14, in reply to "WSJ: Red and blue states are growing further apart on income taxes"
a CM calendar at work is A-OK

I have had conversations about it with my legislators.

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"yeah but you live down where the hoot owls eff the chickens" - illinihiltopper

happening in iowa too.*

Posted by Ari Gold <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Ari+Gold' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 15, 2026, 14:31:06, in reply to "Yeah…MO has been discussing reducing and eliminating the state income tax for the last several years"

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I have had conversations about it with my legislators.

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You all would love the proposed budget for my local county of 1M+ people

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 14, 2026, 21:35:06, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

The area is losing jobs and wealth. Double whammy of fed cutbacks and policies that are uncompetitive. Many office buildings are converting to housing and few new ones get built. Revenue has been squeezed a bit. Public school enrollment is down significantly.

Progressive proposed budget: 3+ % increase in local income tax rate (3.1 to 3.2%). Approx 6% increase in property tax rate on top of recent gains in appraised value. Full funding of school system's request. Many new initiatives.

Text includes comment that employment is down to flat, so we need to increase taxes to make up for it and to fund new things.

These people are divorced from reality. They have no concept that the drivers of prosperity that they assume will run indefinitely are low on fuel.

Everything they do is "essential services."

LOL….Washington house just proposed HB2100 which will put a 5% tax on anyone making over 125k a year

Posted by villain <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=villain' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 14, 2026, 20:36:46, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"
Stupidhead

That took all of about five minutes.

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Seahawks GM concerned about ability to sign free agents

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 16:13:18, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

Story on espn.com. Do you want to sign a giant contract with a 9.9% state income tax involved? That's a big haircut.

california and new york are similar or worse right?*

Posted by Playoff Rondo <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Playoff+Rondo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 14, 2026, 21:08:48, in reply to "Seahawks GM concerned about ability to sign free agents"

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Story on espn.com. Do you want to sign a giant contract with a 9.9% state income tax involved? That's a big haircut.

ICE ICE Baby

Hail Trump

Yes, the Rams and Niners in their division already have it worse*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 14, 2026, 21:36:13, in reply to "california and new york are similar or worse right?*"

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Story on espn.com. Do you want to sign a giant contract with a 9.9% state income tax involved? That's a big haircut.

Sure ya do!! Because.... fairness.

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 16:42:58, in reply to "Seahawks GM concerned about ability to sign free agents"

In all seriousness, California's tax policy hasn't hurt the Dodgers.

Maybe it has something to do with deferred salary? I don't know enough about taxes to comment intelligently on that.

Notice Shohei has an annuity

Posted by WesMantooth <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=WesMantooth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 18:04:49, in reply to "Sure ya do!! Because.... fairness."

He’s not going to be living in Cali when he gets paid a lot of his money

“Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million Dodgers contract, largely structured as deferred compensation ($680 million paid 2034–2043), may allow him to avoid roughly $90–$98 million in California state income tax, according to Forbes and The Athletic. By deferring pay, he avoids the 13.3% CA tax rate on the deferred amount if he is not a California resident when the payments are made, likely saving over $90 million in taxes, reports Forbes, The Athletic, and Center for Jobs.”

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In all seriousness, California's tax policy hasn't hurt the Dodgers.

Maybe it has something to do with deferred salary ? I don't know enough about taxes to comment intelligently on that.

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There is a good chance California will sue him.

Posted by AceFrehley <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=AceFrehley' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 18:07:00, in reply to "Notice Shohei has an annuity"

They might now win but they will.

If the wealth tax passes, I think the retroactive part won't survive the courts*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 18:09:33, in reply to "There is a good chance California will sue him."

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They might now win but they will.

this makes me wonder if they move their permanent residence to a country with little or no

Posted by AceFrehley <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=AceFrehley' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 20:54:46, in reply to "If the wealth tax passes, I think the retroactive part won't survive the courts*"

income tax at all, they can avoid all income tax on it.

it won't stop them from trying.

they lose bigly. But they are going to try.

I don't think it's going to hamstring their pro sports teams

Posted by AceFrehley <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=AceFrehley' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 17:01:57, in reply to "Sure ya do!! Because.... fairness."

but it is a consideration. It's come up when teams in Florida and Texas were competing with team from Chicago and New York.

I may have underestimated how bad this will get for WA

Posted by WesMantooth <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=WesMantooth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 12, 2026, 13:30:32, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

https://x.com/thehoffather/status/2032124458102898856?s=46

Residents are terrified they’ll just start dropping that $1 million amount lower over time.

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Uneducated Redneck Piece of Shit

already gonna be indexed every other year for approx half of inflation

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 6:13:34, in reply to "I may have underestimated how bad this will get for WA"

So even if they don't lower it, inflation will do some work. As reported by the WSJ:

The House this week struck from the bill an annual inflation adjustment to the $1 million tax threshold. Instead it will adjust only every other year, capturing only the prior 12 months of inflation. The House also replaced its traditional Seattle consumer price index with a slower-growing national CPI.

House Republicans say this means the $1 million threshold will grow over time at only one-third the real rate of inflation. Year after year the “millionaire” tax will capture more and more earners who weren’t millionaires when the tax was passed. That’s the dishonest way Democrats will tax the middle class, which is where the real money is.

I honestly can’t believe 1 in 200 Washingtonian households are $1 mill+

Posted by WesMantooth <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=WesMantooth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 9:12:03, in reply to "already gonna be indexed every other year for approx half of inflation"

I’m thinking most 2 medical doctor households in the Midwest are in the $600-800k combined range.

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So even if they don't lower it, inflation will do some work. As reported by the WSJ:

The House this week struck from the bill an annual inflation adjustment to the $1 million tax threshold. Instead it will adjust only every other year, capturing only the prior 12 months of inflation. The House also replaced its traditional Seattle consumer price index with a slower-growing national CPI.

House Republicans say this means the $1 million threshold will grow over time at only one-third the real rate of inflation. Year after year the “millionaire” tax will capture more and more earners who weren’t millionaires when the tax was passed. That’s the dishonest way Democrats will tax the middle class, which is where the real money is.

Uneducated Redneck Piece of Shit

That seems too low. Perhaps if they are just normal family doctors that seems right.

Posted by villain <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=villain' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 11:43:10, in reply to "I honestly can’t believe 1 in 200 Washingtonian households are $1 mill+"
Stupidhead

But specialists should be making 600-800 easy by themselves, even in the poverty stricken midwest.

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I’m thinking most 2 medical doctor households in the Midwest are in the $600-800k combined range.

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So even if they don't lower it, inflation will do some work. As reported by the WSJ:

The House this week struck from the bill an annual inflation adjustment to the $1 million tax threshold. Instead it will adjust only every other year, capturing only the prior 12 months of inflation. The House also replaced its traditional Seattle consumer price index with a slower-growing national CPI.

House Republicans say this means the $1 million threshold will grow over time at only one-third the real rate of inflation. Year after year the “millionaire” tax will capture more and more earners who weren’t millionaires when the tax was passed. That’s the dishonest way Democrats will tax the middle class, which is where the real money is.

probably just another real jerk in life

Just checked a former classmate/basketball teammate who is the Univ Washington team physician

Posted by WesMantooth <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=WesMantooth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 16:23:03, in reply to "That seems too low. Perhaps if they are just normal family doctors that seems right."

As of 2022 he was making $288k at the univ of Washington. Figure that’s gone up to $350k now.

Does he make more than that on surgeries? Maybe, even though I’d guess almost all of his clients are UW athletes.

But I’d assume he’s also there for great medical and retirement benefits.

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But specialists should be making 600-800 easy by themselves, even in the poverty stricken midwest.

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I’m thinking most 2 medical doctor households in the Midwest are in the $600-800k combined range.

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So even if they don't lower it, inflation will do some work. As reported by the WSJ:

The House this week struck from the bill an annual inflation adjustment to the $1 million tax threshold. Instead it will adjust only every other year, capturing only the prior 12 months of inflation. The House also replaced its traditional Seattle consumer price index with a slower-growing national CPI.

House Republicans say this means the $1 million threshold will grow over time at only one-third the real rate of inflation. Year after year the “millionaire” tax will capture more and more earners who weren’t millionaires when the tax was passed. That’s the dishonest way Democrats will tax the middle class, which is where the real money is.

Uneducated Redneck Piece of Shit

i like that guy *

Posted by Giant Dong <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Giant+Dong' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 12, 2026, 23:16:37, in reply to "I may have underestimated how bad this will get for WA"
the full 1 cm

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https://x.com/thehoffather/status/2032124458102898856?s=46

Residents are terrified they’ll just start dropping that $1 million amount lower over time.

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Hadn’t heard of him before but I’m now following him

When I see a Jewish man with reasonable thoughts like him and Ace, I wonder why there are so many far left wing?

There’s def a split brewing between liberal Jews and the left due to the left generally embracing Palestine and To some degree Islam.

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https://x.com/thehoffather/status/2032124458102898856?s=46

Residents are terrified they’ll just start dropping that $1 million amount lower over time.

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Uneducated Redneck Piece of Shit

SALT really softens it. brings it down to 5-6% effective*

Posted by Playoff Rondo <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Playoff+Rondo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 12, 2026, 14:45:16, in reply to "I may have underestimated how bad this will get for WA"

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Residents are terrified they’ll just start dropping that $1 million amount lower over time.

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Hail Trump

SALT is capped at $40K, which matters if you make that much*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 6:15:29, in reply to "SALT really softens it. brings it down to 5-6% effective*"

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Residents are terrified they’ll just start dropping that $1 million amount lower over time.

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I give it 2 years tops before they drop it to 300k*

Posted by villain <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=villain' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 12, 2026, 13:39:05, in reply to "I may have underestimated how bad this will get for WA"
Stupidhead

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Residents are terrified they’ll just start dropping that $1 million amount lower over time.

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probably just another real jerk in life

WHAT??? You're saying this is all a huge scam to expand government? Can't believe it....

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 8:44:02, in reply to "I give it 2 years tops before they drop it to 300k*"

Coincidently, the Trib has an editorial today:

Editorial: Whatever his reasons, it’s good Gov. JB Pritzker isn’t joining other blue states on the tax-the-rich bandwagon

News broke earlier this week that Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks and a multibillionaire, is moving from his long-time home in Washington state to South Florida.

Schultz didn’t say the move was a response to Washington’s likely enactment soon of a 9.9% tax on income above $1 million, but the timing was hard to ignore. It’s become something of a theme — a theme we suspect will grow — that the uber-rich are voting with their feet as blue states increasingly look to tax their wealthiest residents.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently closed on a $200 million mansion in the so-called “billionaire bunker” on Indian Creek Island in South Florida — a move coming as supporters gather signatures to put a one-time 5% tax on billionaires’ wealth (including unrealized gains) on the ballot in California, where Zuckerberg has lived for years. Other California billionaires already have decamped.

In New York, state legislative leaders are backing a bevy of new taxes on business and high earners. In response, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who won election last year on a soak-the-rich platform, expressed his gratitude. Mayor Brandon Johnson surely is looking from afar with envy, having begged Springfield for three years with no success to pass such taxes.

Johnson and his fellow progressives continue to beat the same drum in Springfield, but there’s no sign their fortunes will change. Why? Because Gov. JB Pritzker has stood in the way.

In Illinois — a state every bit as blue as Washington and New York — Pritzker has proposed a fiscal 2027 budget that’s mainly about belt-tightening. As he faces yet another significant budget deficit, the governor thus far has ignored calls from those on the left, including House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, for a surtax on millionaires — an initiative that would require passage of a constitutional amendment.

Whatever his motivation, we’re pleased that Pritzker to date appears to have recognized that Illinois is in no position to give its wealthiest residents more reasons to leave the state. Our economy has struggled for years; taxes already are high when taking into account income, property and sales levies; and underfunded public pensions sap confidence from would-be investors that Illinois is a good place to start or expand a business.

Pritzker took a run soon after first winning office at amending Illinois’ Constitution to allow for a graduated income tax. The Constitution currently allows only for a flat income tax, making bids to raise it for individuals politically toxic. Illinois voters handily rejected Pritzker’s proposal.

Ever since, Pritzker has pointed to that defeat when Welch and others beseech him to try again.

The worry for us and others concerned about keeping Illinois from further harming its economic competitiveness is that Pritzker’s reticence when it comes to special taxes on high earners is mainly a political calculation. Pritzker is running this year for a third term as governor and is an overwhelming favorite to retain the office. But, of course, he also is considering a 2028 presidential run, and if he takes the plunge Illinois’ story will double as his own political argument for support from the rest of the country.

Doubling down on the high-tax, low-growth narrative that unfortunately has defined Illinois for years isn’t likely to get people excited about JB in ’28.

If political calculations are what is stopping Democratic Party-dominated Illinois from sending more of its wealthy residents packing for more tax- (and weather-) friendly climes, we’ll take that. Ultimately, the only sustainable way out of Illinois’ fiscal woes is to make the state a favorable destination for new residents and growing businesses.

But we hope that Pritzker’s laudable efforts to keep his fellow Democrats from making Illinois even less competitive than it already is are based on his beliefs as to what constitutes good policy and what voters have told him they want.

Republicans and others have criticized Pritzker for running for re-election while harboring presidential ambitions that may well have him less than fully focused on Illinois’ needs during a third term. But if a presidential run means Springfield’s tax-and-spend set is kept at bay for the next few years, a little distraction from Pritzker’s day job may be a small price to pay.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/13/editorial-pritzker-illinois-millionaire-taxes-new-york-washington/

If ya somehow believe that the CA tax will be a one-timer, I've got some waterfront property in Arizona that's for sale.

Wake TF up. Shrink government. It cannot expand to infinity. Just ask Russia.

end SALT deduction now!

Posted by Playoff Rondo <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Playoff+Rondo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 20:50:47, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

this is just a failed state robbing from the fed

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Hail Trump

it helped me decide to itemize for 2025 taxes, and I saved money. Still the raise was dumb*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 21:14:53, in reply to "end SALT deduction now!"

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this is just a failed state robbing from the fed

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Dumbshits. I have no problem with them destroying their own states.

Posted by Lexillini <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Lexillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 17:43:02, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"
weiner sleeve

Just don't import that crap to the red states.

Guns. Have them.

The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.

Socialism is the gospel of envy.

Every single day someone new from California or Seattle finds a North Idaho community FB page

Posted by villain <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=villain' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 12, 2026, 13:48:49, in reply to "Dumbshits. I have no problem with them destroying their own states."
Stupidhead

and announces they are moving to CDA/Hayden/Sandpoint and asks for recs of some sort.....and everyday that new person gets 500-1000 responses telling them to get &%^##( and that they are not wanted here. It's some fantastic comedy.

They also claim, "but we're not like the other people from X, we're moderates".....which means they've voted straight ticket dem their entire lives but don't like the results of what their votes brought.

probably just another real jerk in life

They don't understand that you can be moderate but if you vote Democrat you are the problem*

Posted by AceFrehley <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=AceFrehley' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2026, 15:01:23, in reply to "Every single day someone new from California or Seattle finds a North Idaho community FB page"

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exactly *

Posted by Giant Dong <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=Giant+Dong' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 12, 2026, 23:18:23, in reply to "Every single day someone new from California or Seattle finds a North Idaho community FB page"
the full 1 cm

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I’ve been thinking about this. Honestly it probably won’t hurt Washington that much

Posted by WesMantooth <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=WesMantooth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 16:48:52, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

Although their projected revenue will fall short of what they said this Rich person tax will get them.

Increasing and bringing new taxes are their only options. They can’t cut spending because they’re addicts.

If half of their billionaires and $2 million+ annual income earners leave, they’re still going to get 9.9% of income over $1 mill from the remaining ones. Their estates are already built. Where they lose is if the billionaires move their companies with them. Let’s hope they leave in droves.

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Uneducated Redneck Piece of Shit

What remaining ones though?

Posted by auto <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=auto' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 19:55:42, in reply to "I’ve been thinking about this. Honestly it probably won’t hurt Washington that much"

There's a handful of people at Microsoft and a large handful at Amazon, but it's not like there's a ton of law firms and investment banks there.

They weren't particularly good at attracting those people when there was no income tax. No idea how they're going to do it now that they have a 10% income tax.

And that, of course, assumes that Amazon and Microsoft actually stay there. Bezos already moved to Miami (and is from Texas).

We saw that with Citadel in Illinois. There was a bunch of hand wringing when they moved to Florida and Citadel told people they could stay in Illinois if they wanted. We are 3 years out and 80% of the staff has already relocated to Florida.

There has to be an even chance that Amazon moves its HQ to Florida or Texas within the next 5 years.

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Tons of the tech companies will leave for Austin...maybe a few will jump to Boise or Phoenix

Posted by villain <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=villain' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 12, 2026, 13:55:19, in reply to "What remaining ones though?"
Stupidhead

There are a shit ton of big tech execs in Seattle....probably close to the same amount as in the Bay Area. They aren't taking that hit on their bonuses every year.

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probably just another real jerk in life

Democrats are terrible people. *

Posted by AceFrehley <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=AceFrehley' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 12:33:57, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

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the state where an income tax is (allegedly) unconstitutional*

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FWLIW: Illinois has a flat income tax. Pritzker, et al have been trying to change that.

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 13:34:11, in reply to "the state where an income tax is (allegedly) unconstitutional*"

Failed miserably the first time he had a referendum.

I'm confident they'll try again.

FWIW: that's the State of Washington, not the federal government. *

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/onedeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 11, 2026, 12:15:56, in reply to "Washington Libtards pass a 9.9% state income tax on couple incomes over $1 million"

Just sayin' ...

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