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Well, this sounds like another brilliant idea from the Seattle City Gov.  Seattle lawmakers, after being pressured by business leaders to repeal a controversial tax meant to address the city's homeless problem, have a brand new plan -- turn City Hall's lobby into a homeless shelter. The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve a plan expanding the number of housing and shelter units by 25 percent. That includes an extra 100 spaces at City Hall. "When people have access to shelter, they’re more likely to take advantage of services like behavioral health, hygiene services, and employment support, and then move to permanent housing,” Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a statement. “We all have to contribute to solutions to this crisis, which is why we’re opening City Hall [to] more people each night." KOMO News reports that the homeless will be housed in the lobby, with the shelter being run by the Salvation Army. That is in addition to an overnight shelter in the building that has the capacity for 60 people to stay. The outlet reported that the plan would cost $13 million. Seattle’s lawmakers are still struggling to grapple with the homeless problem. In a press release announcing the move, Durkan’s office said that while Seattle currently has 2,032 shelter spaces, they are more than 90 percent full each night. The move comes shortly after the Council voted this month to repeal a “head tax” that it controversially passed only a month before. That tax would have taxed businesses making at least $20 million in gross revenues about $275 per full-time worker each year. The estimated $48 million that would have brought in was earmarked for housing and homeless shelters. That proposal drew significant criticism from Amazon and Starbucks, with Amazon releasing a statement saying the tax would cause it to reconsider future growth in the city. “The city does not have a revenue problem – it has a spending efficiency problem,” Drew Herdener, Amazon vice president, said in a statement. “We are highly uncertain whether the city council’s anti-business positions or its spending inefficiency will change for the better.” The Associated Press reports that the Seattle region had the third-highest number of homeless people in the U.S., despite the city spending $68 million on combating homelessness last year. http://www.foxnews.com/politic...r-head-tax-flop.html | ||
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| I Am The Walrus |
Well you have to give it to them for putting someone else's money where their mouth is. _____________ | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
Face it, these people are just smarter than the rest of us. __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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Everyone of those fucks in charge should be dragged out into the town square and tar and feathered. Clueless commies. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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That should fix the problem. What could go wrong? | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
When you make it more comfortable to be homeless, you get more homeless people. How hard is that to understand? They didn't spend $68 million to combat homelessness, they spent $68 million to encourage more of them to live there. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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I hope they keep plenty of spare change in their pockets for when they try to make their way to the elevator... “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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I bet they have their own private entrance. | |||
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| Yew got a spider on yo head  |
Good. Turn it into district 9. That will be a lovely display of their righteousness. Shanty towns and favelas need not be confined to the third world. | |||
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When they decide to expand their own private homes and properties to accommodate the homeless, I’ll be impressed. | |||
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| Happiness is Vectored Thrust  |
+1 Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. | |||
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Politicians should be required to show to work each and every day. After being harassed, spit on, heckled, etc., maybe they'll gain a new perspective. ========================================== Just my 2¢ ____________________________ Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right ♫♫♫ | |||
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How long will it be before the lobby fills up with shit and needles? | |||
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 "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Basic economics. Socialism/liberalism destroys all. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Don't Panic |
You are correct in this, but these chuckleheads will spin it as a display about how horrific everybody else is, not as an example of their particular idiocy bringing its inevitable results. | |||
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You think Seattle is becoming like San Francisco?  Seems to me the issue will be how much will you help solve people's problems vs how much will you help fertilize people's problems. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
I used to be amazed by the st00pid schitt leftists did. I've run out of amazement. Now I'm merely amused. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Serenity now! |
$13 million dollars? For some cots and blankets? Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
It is. Tacoma is supposedly better, and I've got horror stories for days. ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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