“…the task force was told to consider “new progressive revenue sources,…”

I just slowly shake my head.  We’ve covered Seattle’s silliness (except it really is disheartening) over the years as Statism / Socialism seems to have grabbed hard on its leaders (at least one is outright and proud Socialist) as it deploys policies that keep screwing over its residents instead of getting tarred and feathered (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here just for starters).  And again, the Seattle Socialists have decided that they know better how to spend other peoples’ money better than they do and are going to target “rich” companies and tax them on their head counts.  No, not just annually but EVERY HOUR for EVERY EMPLOYEE (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Seattle task force recommends ‘head tax’ to fund help for homeless

A Seattle task force is recommending the City Council adopt a $75 million-per-year “head tax” on high-grossing businesses to help address homelessness. Members of the community panel set up by the council reached consensus during their last meeting Thursday after about two months of work.  The council narrowly rejected a $25 million-per-year head tax (also called an employee-hours tax) in November, instead vowing to revisit the issue and pass a tax this year after more study by the task force.

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Unless you’ve been living under a huge rock, you are familiar with the Left’s opinion of Mr. Trump. He’s Hilter, a tyrant, a racist, unstable, he is going to start a nuclear war. This narrative has continued non-stop since the election, and probably the nomination.

Trump is a Nazi. Just google Trump Hitler. Web links. Images. It’s endless.

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They have to – most of them are seemingly rather insecure and only comfortable living in alternative realities acting like they are someone else but believe that gives them the right to morally preen in front of the rest of us.

On this topic, they’d have a bit more credibility if they fired all those bodyguards that have firearms but they haven’t seem to have figured out that little bit of irony.

(H/T: BizPac Review)

UPDATE: From the Daily Caller

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Yesterday former New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O’Brien, in a public Facebook post, released a letter he is sending to the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting a criminal investigation into the Bernie Sander’s 2016 Presidential campaign based on the Federal Election Commissions fine which we reported here.

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Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas owned the internet with a floor speech last week that had Democrats fuming. Let’s call it an honest debate about having an honest debate about violence.

Democrats don’t want one of those, and they don’t like it when they are told so to their faces.

“If you’re wanting the other reason why we can’t have an honest debate about this one is because, quite frankly, I don’t think any of us, on this side of the aisle, believe you when you say that’s all you want to do. It will be bump stocks, it will be background checks, it will be a different kind of background checks that register the guns… Then, after that, it will be ‘We need to ban assault weapons.’

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The whole country is still mourning the loss of young lives at the hands of another mass murderer and feels only the most profound compassion for the survivors.

But the liberal media apparently found a way to capitalize on another catastrophe. Either that or they honestly believe that this one somehow imbued the survivors with the solution to a problem that has confounded sociologists, psychologists, lawmakers, and law enforcement professionals for decades.

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. What’s at stake?

The case concerns Mark Janus, a child-care specialist for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, who refuses to join the union. Nonetheless, by state law, Janus is forced to pay “agency fees” to AFSCME. 

The ability of unions to require mandatory dues or fees. And all signs point toward the unions losing this fight.

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Mike Huckabee has quickly resigned from the Country Music Awards Foundation after being asked to be on the board.

As is often the case, a homosexual activist had to be appeased. But that isn’t the lead in this story or any story about the incident. The other side can’t be written in PC World.

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Don’t get used to this but I’m sharing video from The View. I’m sharing it because Condi Rice was on and explained that part of the reason she supports the second amendment is that guns protected blacks in the south from racists.

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Nationally funded Progress Now’s local left-wing affiliate, Granite State Progress, is promoting an event on Facebook called ‘Keep Guns Out Of Schools.’ No, they don’t mean “keep criminals with guns” out of schools. In fact, they are advocating for precisely the opposite. They are rallying support for a floor amendment to SB 357 that would allow local school boards to advertise to criminals that their schools as soft-targets.

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For your Friday Morning consideration, a No Whites Allowed Magazine.

“This zine specifically features and promotes black and brown lgbtqa creatives,” the description states. “We hope to showcase our talent and create an open space for our voices to be heard.”

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New Hampshire congressional district two Republican candidate Steve Negron has announced a series of interactive online Facebook-Live forums where voters can ask Steve questions about the issues.

“I am incredibly excited about launching our online Facebook forum, which will be an important tool in my continued efforts to talk with voters about the issues impacting them and their families.”

The schedule is described as ‘dynamic’ so we’ll have to wait and see how often or how many facebook live forums the voters in CD-2 will get with Steve Negron but to the best of my knowledge no other Republican candidate in that race is making themselves this accessible or using social media for live interactions with voters.

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Memorable line from the piece: “”… believes if he’d grabbed the smaller gun, the threat would have been less effective and he would have ended up shooting the man“

So a big black scary rifle (of only medium caliber) stopped a thug without firing a shot: deterrence through strength! Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Dave Thomas was getting ready for work Monday afternoon when he heard women screaming in his apartment building in Oswego. 

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SO MUCH FOR THE NARRATIVE: Report: Parkland Shooter Did Not Use High Capacity Magazines. “The gunman used only 10-round magazines. The Parkland shooter did not use magazines larger than 10 rounds, but gun reform lobbyists are calling on lawmakers to ban higher capacity magazines after the Valentine’s Day tragedy.”

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I’M SORRY, BUT IF YOUR FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING A STATUE OF A GORILLA INVOLVES BLACK PEOPLE, then you’re the racist.

It took the townfolks to protest this stupidity to get it put back.

A statue of a gorilla in a community playground was removed because some people found the children’s plaything racially insensitive. The gorilla, which had stood for 19 years in the playground in Corsicana, Texas, was removed by city workers.

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Poll: 82% Of Dems Favor Banning All Semiautomatic Weapons, Evenly Split On Banning All Guns

YouGov asked people whether they favor or oppose banning semiautomatic weapons. Note: Not semiautomatic rifles, which some might incorrectly but understandably treat as a question about AR-15s or “assault weapons.” YouGov asked about semiautomatic weapons. That means handguns too.

Which basically means around 90-95% of commonly held firearms by citizens.  This is confiscation and the drumbeat

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