Journalist Justin puts two moments from the same Seattle mayor side by side and asks the question the coverage is not connecting. On one side, Mayor Katie Wilson on a stage laughing and waving goodbye to millionaires leaving over the new tax. On the other, Wilson on the Seattle Channel this week confirming a four hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit, calling budget cuts terrifying, saying she is out of tools, and watching a report drop showing she is now exploring a plan to move the Seattle Fire Department’s entire three hundred and fifty million dollar budget out of the general fund and into a special district dependent on periodic public votes. The Seattle Firefighters Union called it alarming immediately. In this detailed breakdown Justin traces the JumpStart payroll tax raids that have been papering over the real deficit for years, the thirty six and a half percent downtown office vacancy rate that is still climbing, the twenty thousand tech layoffs in the region, and the Howard Schultz Wall Street Journal op-ed calling Seattle hostile to business. Justin argues that the wave was the political moment and the four hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficit is what political moments cost when the math was already moving before anyone got on stage.
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