Hannah Krieg

Good op-ed here. There's no reason to take this "deal" with big corporations anyway. They are trying to get a huge tax cut at the expense of our public schools, while quietly hoping (and maybe even encouraging) right-wing activists to put it on the ballot and kill the millionaire's tax anyway.

The Millionaire’s Tax: Will it be a Win for the People or a Gift for the Corporate Lobby? When our progressive revenue advocacy coalition, Tech4Taxes, sat down with key lawmakers during the legislative interim, we weren't just there to talk policy; we were there to witness a high-stakes tr...

OP ED: Lawmakers want progressives to clap for their corporate-friendly income tax, but with the House striking the bill's $550 million corporate handout, Tech4Taxes activist Fatema Boxwala urges you to tell your reps to pick the people over big biz www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-mil...

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

UPDATE: Mysteriously the day after advocates decided to register their disgust with the Mayor of Hunts Point for profiting off of the abduction of our neighbors, the City posted the agenda, cancelling the meeting!

Yes. That's a moratorium on detention centers and doesn't apply to private companies

ICE’s Potential New Landlord Is Also The Mayor Of A Small Lake Washington Town According to a flyer circulating social media, advocates want to “pack the room” at a Hunts Point City Council meeting next Monday, March 2nd. It's a seemingly unusual target considering the affluent ...

NEW: Advocates want to pack the room at a City Council meeting in a tiny Lake Washington town and they aren't going to talk about pot holes. The Mayor of Hunts Point is also the president of the company that may soon lease office space to ICE in Tukwila www.theburnerseattle.com/post/ice-s-p...

Slide showing that the repeal of SB 5814 would result in a $157 million loss biennially across all funds including Metro transit

The sales tax cut that was included in the Millionaire's Tax right before it passed off the Senate floor would result in a $157 million hit to King County in its first two years, hitting Metro and other departments including housing and mental health programs.

Washington’s budget has actually declined by 60% overall.

Even though the state’s yearly budget grew from $22 billion to $37 billion (adjusted for inflation) over the past 30 years, it didn’t keep up with our state’s capacity to invest. Learn more: opportunityinstitute.org/blog/post/wa...

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Group of House Democrats Finally Take A Stand Against The Half Billion Corporate Giveaway Within The Millionaires Tax About a dozen representatives from the Washington State House Democratic Caucus signed on to a letter calling for the House Finance committee to pass the millionaires tax WITHOUT the corporate giveawa...

BREAKING: A group of WA House Democrats is FINALLY taking a stand against the half billionaire corporate giveaway in the millionaires tax. They urge the House Finance committee to pass the tax WITHOUT a sweetner for big business on Friday www.theburnerseattle.com/post/group-o...

For the record, all staff at EOI are in strong support of the Millionaires Tax.

QUICK: Can I tap to pay for 545 bus?

Republicans Brag About 100k “Con” Sign Ins For Millionaires Tax — Almost 40k May Be Fake, Advocates Allege Supporters of the millionaires tax under consideration in the Washington State Legislature say the tidal wave of opposition in the bill’s public sign-ins may not reflect genuine public sentiment, but ...

NEW: Republicans point to more than 100k sign ins against the millionaires tax to prove its unpopularity. But supporters noticed something fishy. One of the co-sponsors of the bill signed in con --- twice. Now they allege almost 40k sign ins may be fake www.theburnerseattle.com/post/republi...

If Mayor Wilson Wants To Keep Her Campaign Promise About Shelters, She Needs To Take Money From The Sweep Team A central promise of Katie Wilson’s mayoral campaign was to add 1,000 units of shelter by the end of 2026. It’s a promise Seattle desperately needs her to keep. After declaring a state of emergency on...

NEW: Mayor Katie Wilson needs money to pay for her ambitious 1000 shelter unit promise. Advocates write that she should look no further than the millions the City wastes every year on cruel and ineffective sweeps. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/if-mayo...

GUEST POST: Mayor Katie Wilson Declared that She’s Fully Pro-Surveillance, We Can’t Keep Pretending Otherwise Mayor Wilson was not wishy-washy on surveillance in her State of the City Address. She delivered full-on pro-surveillance propaganda indistinguishable from Bruce Harrell’s or Bob Kettle’s rhetoric. Pe...

GUEST POST: Guest writer and advocate BJ Last breaks down the pro-surveillance propaganda in Mayor Katie Wilson's recent speech
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/guest-p...

WA could pay for all these edu programs they plan to cut and MORE if they just didn't repeal the 2025 estate tax expansion...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson smiling between lost dog poster on a pole and a guy walking a dog behind her (both from the Super Bowl Ring ad)

Mayor Wilson Opens Mind to Adding Surveillance Cameras After Hearing They Can Help Find Lost Dogs: tinyurl.com/j8fhe8fd

No One Tried To Stop Half Billion Dollar Corporate Tax Break In Millionaires Tax In WA Senate The Washington State Senate took a historic step toward fixing the state’s notoriously regressive tax code when it approved a 9.9% income tax on earnings over $1 million. Incumbents will almost certai...

ICYMI: In all three hours of the Senate's floor debate over the millionaires tax, not a single Democrat mentioned a half billion dollar corporate hand out baked into the text, let alone proposed an amendment to remove it www.theburnerseattle.com/post/no-one-...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

that'll fix it!

Washington Lawmakers Call for Probe Into Killing of Seattle Activist — Without Saying Who Fired The Washington State Senate passed Senate Joint Memorial 8014, formally urging the Federal government to investigate the death of Seattle resident Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by an Israeli snipe...

NEW: Lawmakers removed widely agreed upon fact that an Israeli sniper killed Seattle activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi and the resolution calling for an investigation still got snubbed by 17 Republicans and 2 Democrats in State Senate www.theburnerseattle.com/post/washing...

Mayor Katie Wilson Still Won't Commit To Blocking Surveillance Expansion, "Moved" By Arguments Tech Helps Solve Crime Mayor Katie Wilson once again failed to commit to blocking a major expansion to the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) surveillance capabilities that the City approved last fall, but has yet to impleme...

NEW: Wilson signaled her most moderate posture yet on the controversial surveillance expansion she once opposed at her state of the city address. She used to argue that cameras don't improve safety, now she's "moved" by families impacted by gun violence www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-k...

Moderate Democrats Opposed Millionaires Tax For Not Doing Enough For Working Families — But Never Tried To Fix It The Washington State Democrat’s flashiest bill of the session, the millionaires tax, passed 27-22 off the floor of the Washington State Senate Monday afternoon, mostly on party lines. Three Senate Dem...

NEW: 3 Senate Democrats opposed the millionaires tax, employing their best progressive populist rhetoric to argue it doesn't do enough for working people. However, none of them attempted to increase sales tax relief or eliminate corporate handouts baked in www.theburnerseattle.com/post/moderat...

As Election Nears, WA's Gluesenkamp Perez Votes With Democrats Against The Voter Disenfranchisment She Previously Supported Southwest Washington’s switch-hitter Democrat Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez changed her stance on a Republican-led effort to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters to crackdown on the imaginary thre...

NEW: In change of heart (or at least re-election strategy) SW WA's Marie Gluesenkamp Perez votes with Democrats against the voter suppression bill she previously supported. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/as-elec...

WA Sen. Jamie Pedersen’s Millionaire Tax Is Too Little, Too Late Washington State’s tax policy is long past due for an overhaul, but the current efforts being put forward by Jamie Pedersen perfectly encapsulate the continuously insufficient and out of touch respons...

OP ED: Sen. Jamie Pedersen push for his corporate-tax-break-riddled Millionaires Tax and no other progressive revenue reveals his continued allegiance to corporations over working people, DSA organizer Patrick O'Neill argues. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/wa-sen-...

Seattle Organizer’s Location Unknown as ICE Prepares to Deport Him Undocumented-led mutual aid group Super Familia has launched a letter-writing campaign demanding Washington elected officials intervene on behalf of community organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres, who...

NEW: No one has heard from Seattle organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres since Friday when he said he would be deported this weekend. ICE lookup system says he's in custody, but won't say where. Advocates demand WA congressional delegation step in
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Bob Kettle is a piece of shit.

Seattle Lobbied Olympia For Huge Exemption For Seattle Police In Weak Surveillance Regulations While advocates shame the Washington State Senate for being too lax in its bipartisan bill regulating fascist-enabling Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology, Seattle City Council Member Bob...

NEW: CM Kettle + Seattle's State Leg Affairs Director lobbied Olympia for a huge exemption from a bipartisan bill regulating Automatic License Plate Reader tech. So the City cares less about civil liberties than half of the Republicans in the State Senate! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Mayor Said To “Expect” To “Hear More” On Surveillance Issue Last Week. Seattle Is Still Waiting Mayor Katie Wilson’s office said the public could “expect” to “hear more” from her about the “potential for federal agents to abuse surveillance technology” in the first week of February in an email t...

NEW: Mayor teased an announcement for last week about the surveillance system community members want scaled back amid ICE's nationwide campaign of terror. The week came and went, no announcement! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-s...

Bipartisan Caucus of Prudes Push Age Verification For Sexual Content In WA Legislature If it sounds like a bill you’d read about in a red state, that’s because it is. A bipartisan coalition in the Washington State legislature is borrowing from policy “role models” such as Texas, Florida...

GREAT NEWS: This very dumb, conservative moral panic bill that would make us all show ID to any website that's 30% adult content in the name of The Children TM, is dead. No need to worry about it for the rest of session. Context: www.theburnerseattle.com/post/biparti...