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King County judge upholds payroll tax for Seattle corporations that pay high salaries
A lawsuit challenging the JumpStart Seattle tax was filed after it was approved last year. The tax applies to businesses that spend $7 million or more on payroll. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 9:51 PM PDT June 4, 2021
SEATTLE A King County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a payroll tax passed last year by the Seattle City Council that will tax businesses that spend $7 million or more on payroll in the city.
Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda proposed the JumpStart Seattle tax in 2020 as a way to generate revenue to help the city recover from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
QFC to close two Seattle stores, blames city’s new $4 hazard pay law
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
By Paul Roberts | The Seattle Times and Tribune News Service
The heated debate over Seattle’s $4-an-hour hazard pay law for grocery workers escalated sharply this week.
On Tuesday, QFC announced it will close two Seattle stores by April 24 and blamed the move, in part, on the new law.
Although QFC acknowledged that both locations at 416 15th Avenue East on Capitol Hill and at 8400 35th Ave. NE in Wedgwood were “underperforming,” the decision to close them was “accelerated” by Seattle’s hazard pay law, which the City Council approved Jan. 25.
Rantz: Seattle councilmember pushes communist Cuban propaganda, celebrates Castro
Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda. (Facebook)
Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda amplified a Socialist promoting communist propaganda from Cuba. It also includes a picture glorifying Cuban tyrant and mass murderer Fidel Castro.
The tweet screenshots an “article” from Granma, the official voice of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee. In it, the communist propaganda outlet snaps at the United States for designating their country a state sponsor of terror.
They earned that designation for … sponsoring terrorism. They also harbor terrorists and U.S. fugitives. The move, in the waning days of the Trump administration, reversed an Obama-era decision from 2015.