Blogs Jun 16, 2009 at 12:59 pm

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Maybe we can put the election off for a couple months, so Susan can learn more about county government.
2
I thought she was from KIRO.
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So, in other words, she wants to steal our tax dollars to give to her road-building comrades over our express wishes.

Figures.

Too bad for her it's illegal to do that. Not that that ever stopped an America-hating Republicant like her.
4

Erica's back, and she still can't get a major predicating fact right about this story. She's from KIRO.

Hey did she ever steal wine like you?
5
What's with the weird looking guy in the redish shirt on the right?
6
That B&O idea doesn't seem half bad, if, and really only if, there was an offsetting increase in tax so it was revenue neutral. B&O is a bitch to new and struggling buisness because its a gross receipts tax. You pay it whether you make a profit or not. Having a high threshold would be a nice plus to small businesses.

You know, we could scrap the whole thing and replace it with an income tax, but god forbid we did that.
7
Susan wants to manage growth "by bringing all the factions together." Cool! Will there be snacks?
8
George Bush economics and Anita Bryant style. Are we really that stupid?
9
I love how newbies like Lady Hutch cry about "professional politcians", and that someone with no relevant job experience would be so much better.

If you are arrested, do you want a professional lawyer representing you, or just someone who'd watched a lot of Perry Mason, Matlock and Law & Order? If you have cancer, would you go to a real MD, or someone who's watched a lot of Grey's Anatomy? If you need someone to run a branch of government, wouldn't you look to someone who's been training for that job for decades? Could someone with a pretty face who's watched TV news for several years just step up and become an "anchor"? (well, probably yes to the last one)

{I love Thomas Jefferson, but one of his unfortunate legacies is this damned fool idea that a simple farmer could become a great statesman at the drop of a three cornered hat. Maybe he was being a little disingenuous about his own position: he was a farmer in name only.}

Lady Hutch believes that because she was a newsreader for 20 years, everyone thinks she is friendly & credible. Newsflash: I only watched her because she was a hottie before that became the norm. She's no longer hot, and newscasters have never been credible. Just wait for her to pull the "Obama would be lost without his teleprompters" BS.
10
If we listened to Susan, we'd be as bankrupt as California.
11
She sounds a lot like Dino Rossi to me. I wonder why that is.
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@5 - probably a Token Black Guy, or one of those guys that gets paid to hold signs a la Brett from Flight of the Conchords or any number of people that hold signs for, um, payment.
13
I love how the conservative rich love to bitch about taxes yet they're the first ones and the loudest ones to call the authorities when their street doesn't get plowed or there's too many potholes on the highway they take to work, or if the maid is late because Metro had to cut service or if the cops don't show up immediately if they call to complain about a noise they might have heard...
14
So she supports "all of them?" Just like Sarah Palin reads "all of them?"

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I love how all her campaign literature is using a 20-year-old picture of her.

The county employees' unions are outraged by some of the remarks she's made recently - and rightfully so. She not only suggested a freeze (all the exec candidates are pretty much behind a pay and hiring freeze), she suggested rank-and-file county employees' pay be cut. Now, while there are some overpaid county employees, that particular brush needs to not be applied quite that broadly. They need to start on the top floors and corner offices with that kind of suggestion.

She's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. She wasn't a particularly good newsreader, either. She just looked the part. Twenty years ago.
17
We need a Makeover Monday picture of Susan Hutchins from a recent time - not a 20-year-old pic.

Maybe with her holding a hunting rifle as she hunts dinosaurs with Jesus.
18
Erica,
have you heard that Hutchison might be a Republican?
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Seattle Municipal Courtroom 1003, June 18, 2009, at 13:35
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The biggest issue with B&O for small business is filling out the forms. The tax needs to paid where the transaction takes place so mail order or other means of selling result in much accounting. The maximum saved by her proposal is about $1100. Since businesses pay very few taxes in WA and no tax on income this start-up argument doesn't hold up. It is a very small tax. In order to pay it, a latte needs to be $2.01 instead of $2.00 or 3.02 instead of $3.00.
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20 is right. Business will always take place in Washington so long as there are people here. And business will always bitch and moan about taxes. zzz

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