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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is moving full speed ahead with a sweeping CCTV expansion across the city — just one day after an NYU audit flagged her Real-Time Crime Center for privacy vulnerabilities. Wilson ran on a "Trump Proof Seattle" platform. Now she's activating Stadium District cameras installed for the World Cup and wiring up new surveillance around Garfield High School and Capitol Hill's nightlife corridor. The reversal is stunning but not surprising. After a brutal summer of shootings — at Garfield High, the Bite of Seattle, and Seattle's waterfront — City Hall's ideological commitments ran head-on into a crime wave it couldn't spin away. Wilson is framing the expansion as a "responsible" public-safety framework with civil-liberties safeguards. Sean calls it what it is: a dose of reality finally knocking on the door of a city that spent years soft-pedaling crime and slow-walking prosecution. The ICE footage argument doesn't survive contact with the facts. Criminals documented on camera committing crimes isn't a civil-liberties crisis — it's the system working. Wilson seems to understand this, even if the press release can't say it plainly. Meanwhile, the council members who once opposed every camera are now applauding the same expansion they would have killed a year ago. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily commentary on Pacific Northwest politics and the stories the mainstream press buries. #NFRP #Seattle #KatieWilson GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

A 41-story office tower at 121 West Wacker Drive just sold for roughly $30 million — a 75 percent haircut from the ~$118.5 million Chicago investor Ameritus reportedly paid to acquire it from Sterling Bay back in 2018. That's 25 cents on the dollar, and in the Chicago Loop right now, that's not an outlier. That's the market. The Loop's office sector is working through a generational reckoning. Post-pandemic work-from-home habits permanently gutted demand, investment sales volume collapsed in Q3, and negative net absorption keeps piling up quarter after quarter. With Google's looming move into the Thompson Center as the one wildcard hanging over downtown, the reset is still far from over — and Chicago's anti-business climate hasn't made holding through the pain any easier for owners. The silver lining for the brave: developers who buy right at 25 cents on the dollar and can hold through the bottom could crush it on the back end of this decade. The question is whether you believe Chicago's fundamentals eventually reward patience — and that's a thesis that requires a longer conversation. Subscribe to @reasonablenews and hit the notification bell for daily conservative news commentary on the stories that actually matter. #NFRP #DoomLoop #ChicagoLoop GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Sean breaks down the offer Microsoft sent to 60,000 employees on October 26 — a "Voluntary Exit Offer" the company itself told The Register isn't a buyout. The payout formula is standard severance: roughly one week of base pay per year of service, capped at 39 weeks. No sweetener, no bonus for leaving early. Just the same check you'd get if the company walked you out the door. The only thing signing early buys is certainty. On Blind, where Microsoft employees are actually talking to each other, the question is whether that certainty is worth anything when the next forced layoff round pays the same amount. Sean reads the company memo, walks through the payout math, and unpacks what the internal conversation reveals about where Microsoft is actually headed. Microsoft is the Eastside's most visible tech employer and a defining pillar of the Pacific Northwest economy. When 60,000 of 223,000 workers receive an offer with no real incentive to take it — just an escape hatch ahead of what may be forced cuts — the framing matters. This is what the story inside the company looks like, not the press release version. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary on stories the mainstream press buries. #NFRP #Microsoft #MicrosoftLayoffs GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is pushing a $6.5 million, two-year plan to install staffed public bathrooms across the city — and she recruited former Seahawks star Michael Bennett to rally support at City Hall. The budget item, now under Council review, would fund two permanent park bathrooms plus modular units run by a company called Throne. The problem: Seattle has been here before. In 2008, the city spent $5 million on five self-cleaning toilets and quietly sold them for pennies on the dollar. Sean breaks down why Wilson's closing argument doesn't hold up — from the World Cup security context that inflated the pilot's results to the $6.5M price tag for what amounts to ten high-tech outhouses. Also on the docket: the budget chair's jobs-vs.-bathrooms tradeoff, Bellevue's contrasting approach, a Portland PSA about rats in public restrooms, and Sean's own firsthand rat stories that bring the whole thing home. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily conservative commentary on Pacific Northwest politics and national news that actually matters. #NFRP #Seattle #KatieWilson GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Boeing's commercial airplane division just handed out early Christmas presents — pink slips. Stephanie Pope, head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, confirmed the company will cut roughly 5% of its 50,000-person workforce through attrition and involuntary layoffs, with notices beginning in December. That's about 2,500 jobs, most of them in the Puget Sound region. The timing tells the real story. Boeing can't ramp production fast enough, leaving the division overstaffed relative to output. But Sean connects the dots to the broader Washington picture: years of piled-on taxes, rising minimum wages, and aggressive regulation are eroding the state's business base one announcement at a time — and Boeing is just the loudest headline. Microsoft is pushing voluntary exits. Tech layoffs are stacking up across Redmond and Seattle. With a millionaire's tax fight looming and companies quietly re-evaluating their Pacific Northwest footprint, the Puget Sound is running out of ways to explain the exits as anything but the cost of bad policy. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary that tells you what Seattle media won't. Hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode. #NFRP #BoeingLayoffs #PugetSound GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Seattle's socialist mayor Katie Wilson just issued an executive order defending the city's sprawling RV encampments — claiming the vehicles house traveling nurses, veterans, and remote workers. There's just one problem: Seattle has no idea how many RVs are actually on its streets, and the ones Sean's looking at don't exactly scream "mobile office." Sean reads Mayor Wilson's November 3rd executive order word by word, unpacking the rights language that could make clearing these encampments nearly impossible. Meanwhile, the vehicles themselves — non-running, leaking oil, transmission fluid, and septic waste — tell a very different story than what City Hall is selling. Also on today's show: Seattle's incoming police chief is already clashing with Mayor Wilson, and what that signal means for a city that still can't nail down basic facts about its own streets. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily conservative commentary on Pacific Northwest politics, Seattle's homelessness crisis, and the stories the mainstream media won't touch. #NFRP #Seattle #KatieWilson GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Otter Bar & Burger is closing its doors December 23rd after seven years in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood — and co-owner Jim Hagander isn't mincing words. He told KING 5 that RapidRide J Line construction choked off access, wiped out hundreds of parking spaces, and drove sales down 50 percent, with a 27.8 percent drop from the first year of construction to the second. "We're the next domino to fall," he said. He's right, and the city knew it. Seattle spent $128.5 million to replace Route 70 — a bus that already ran the same corridor without traffic issues — with fewer stops, red paint, and bike lanes nobody asked for. This isn't transit innovation. It's bureaucratic vanity dressed up as progress, funded by taxpayers who never got a vote on whether Eastlake needed this kind of surgery. Sean breaks down what happens when a city prioritizes virtue-signaling infrastructure over the people and businesses that make neighborhoods worth showing up to: a growing list of closures, a January minimum wage hike waiting in the wings, and a downtown that may never return to pre-pandemic levels. Revel's closing too. The list keeps growing. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news from the Pacific Northwest that the mainstream press won't cover straight. #NFRP #Seattle #EastlakeSeattle GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

King County's homelessness bureaucracy just imploded — and Seattle taxpayers are left holding the bag. KCRHA CEO Kelly Kinnison resigned after an independent forensic review exposed a projected $16.7 million budget deficit at the regional agency. The hole was dug through budget miscalculations, unbudgeted administrative rollouts, provider underspending, and mounting overdraft fees — none of which apparently caught anyone's attention until it became unfixable. The review, conducted by Turning Point Strategic Advisors, was delivered to King County's Executive Finance Committee. The finding: an unrecoverable shortfall that Seattle and King County taxpayers will be responsible for repaying. Elected officials are now calling for the agency to be dissolved entirely — which raises the obvious question of why it took a forensic audit rather than basic oversight to get to this point. Mayor Katie Wilson and the KCRHA Governing Board accepted Kinnison's resignation, effective November 16. The agency has now burned through five CEOs while spending roughly $200 million a year with little accountability and apparently even less financial discipline. At some point, blowing through a billion dollars and coming up $17 million short isn't a management failure — it's the design. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily coverage of Pacific Northwest politics and the stories the mainstream media glosses over. #NFRP #KingCounty #KatieWilson GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Cushman & Wakefield's global headquarters in Chicago — a 31-story, 651,000-square-foot tower at 225 W. Wacker Drive — just sold for $115 million. That's 45% below the $210 million Spear Street Capital paid in May 2020, right at the onset of the pandemic. In a market where Chicago office towers over 700,000 square feet are averaging a 71.4% discount since 2024, a 45% haircut is now considered the good outcome. Sean breaks down the forces behind the collapse: the work-from-home standoff that emptied downtown offices, the tax-and-regulation environment choking business investment in Democrat-run cities, and the refinancing crunch hitting commercial real estate loans written at peak valuations. Regional banks are sitting on a pile of distressed commercial paper with nowhere to offload it. The numbers get uglier as you move west. Seattle office towers have posted 54% and 84% losses. Portland just logged a 94% drop on a downtown tower. When a 45% loss in Chicago looks like a win, the reckoning across the urban West is only beginning. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily conservative commentary on Pacific Northwest politics, urban policy, and national stories the mainstream media underreports. #NFRP #CommercialRealEstate #OfficeMarket GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Florida voters just passed Amendment 3, lifting the homestead exemption from $50,000 to $250,000 — a sweeping property tax cut that takes effect in 2028 and shields homeowners from most non-school levies on a quarter-million dollars of home value. At the Miami Real Estate Forum hours after polls closed, real estate insiders called it "a masterclass in fiscal discipline" and declared the Sunshine State simply unbeatable. The contrast with blue-state governance is brutal. While Florida is cutting taxes, Washington State is chasing millionaires and high-earners with a new capital gains levy — a move Sean argues could complicate Seattle's shot at keeping the Sonics. California is floating a billionaire tax. Progressive cities from Seattle to Portland are running massive budget deficits while Florida runs rings around them on fiscal discipline and continues to accelerate the nationwide migration out of high-tax states. Sean breaks down what Amendment 3 actually does for homeowners versus renters, why it specifically benefits older residents on fixed incomes, and why the Miami Real Estate Forum crowd wasn't buying critics' warnings about municipal service cuts. Some states are playing a long game. Others are on the struggle bus to insolvency — and Florida just made the gap wider. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary that cuts through the noise from a Pacific Northwest perspective. #NFRP #Florida #PropertyTax GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Los Angeles voters made history this week, ousting incumbent Karen Bass and handing the mayor's office to Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman — the first challenger to unseat a sitting LA mayor since 2005. Raman won 52% of the vote, a margin that widened as younger, progressive mail-in ballots were counted. Bass conceded gracefully. The city turned left. The platform: rent control expansion, a millionaire's tax, public transit overhaul, and affordable housing mandates. The same wishlist that left New York's socialist experiment building $70M grocery stores while storefront vacancy exploded, and that turned Seattle's progressive decade into a cautionary tale. Karen Bass had real failures — the fires, the homeless crisis, a budget that never added up — but history tends to look kinder on mayors once voters see what replaced them. Sean tracks the pattern: from Providence to Seattle to New York and now Los Angeles, Democratic Socialists are sweeping big-city races on the strength of late mail-in ballots and voters too young to remember the last cycle. The math on these promises doesn't change just because the zip code does. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary from Bellevue, WA — covering the stories the mainstream press buries, without apology. #NFRP #LosAngeles #KarenBass GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

San Francisco's infamous Millennium Tower — the building that tilted 29 inches and was supposedly fixed — just saw a 773-square-foot one-bedroom on the 23rd floor rent for $10,000 a month. Agents say it marks the first time any downtown SF one-bedroom has ever crossed into five-figure territory. The renter? Someone working in AI who needed to be close to the office. The floor still rolls a marble. The building still leans. And yet AI money flooding into San Francisco has bid a unit that last rented for $3,600 in 2022 all the way up to $10,000 — after the agents first listed it at $6,800 and got laughed at by everyone else in the leasing community. Sean Reynolds breaks down what this record rental says about San Francisco's market recovery, the real lending risk that comes with buying into a structurally compromised building, and what it means when enough money floods any market — even a leaning tower nobody wanted to touch just a few years ago. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news coverage from a reasonable perspective. #NFRP #SanFrancisco #MillenniumTower GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Federal immigration agents have been swarming Seattle-area Home Depot parking lots since August, cornering day laborers looking for work and triggering a wave of community neighborhood watches. KUOW documented the scene firsthand: men running, hearts pounding, jumping fences to escape. Meanwhile, local advocates are running their own counter-operation — volunteers staking out the lots to track when and where ICE moves. Sean puts this in the historical context the mainstream press conveniently ignores: a previous Democratic president deported nearly 2 million immigrants and earned the title "Deporter-in-Chief" from immigration advocates themselves. When Trump enforces the same law — after Biden's administration let an estimated 20 million people enter unchecked — the same crowd that cheered that record suddenly finds it horrifying. The outrage isn't about the law. It's about the politics. The Seattle metro's sanctuary-city posture, its self-appointed neighborhood watchers, its breathless local news coverage — none of it addresses why day laborers are standing in parking lots in the first place. That's the story the local press won't tell. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary that doesn't pretend the last 30 years didn't happen. #NFRP #Seattle #ICE GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Washington voters rejected Initiative 645 on Tuesday, choosing to keep Gov. Bob Ferguson's 9.9% millionaires tax intact. With 58% voting No on repeal, the tax — which applies to income above $1 million — will stay on the books and begin collecting revenue in 2029. What Democrats aren't advertising: the history of "just a tax on the wealthy" rarely ends there. Sean Reynolds argues the same political machinery that passed this at $1 million has every incentive to lower the threshold — and his forecast puts $250,000 earners squarely in the crosshairs. Washington has no income tax today; this is how that changes. The vote also exposed what Sean calls the defining hypocrisy of Seattle progressivism. Katie Wilson and her allies celebrated while local restaurants are shutting their doors, a Woodinville manufacturing plant is closing, and the region's business climate continues to deteriorate. The slogan is "tax the rich." The question is who counts as rich next. Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary on Pacific Northwest politics, Seattle policy, and the stories mainstream outlets won't touch. #NFRP #WashingtonState #MillionairesTax GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

Homegrown, the Seattle organic sandwich chain that survived 17 years, isn't going to survive Mayor Katie Wilson. The last two locations — the Docusign Tower shop and the Mercer Island store — close by November 25th, taking the catering operation with them. The union contract workers celebrated in early 2024 didn't save a single store. Four months after signing, 10 locations shuttered. Now the whole thing is gone. The story Sean tells on today's episode is about more than one sandwich chain. It's about a city that taxes its businesses into the ground, watches its restaurant scene collapse, and elects a mayor who boycotted Starbucks while small business owners owe $472,000 to the state. Seattle's labor costs are running 40–50% of restaurant revenue — far above the sustainable 30% threshold — and the minimum wage keeps climbing with no ceiling in sight. Mayor Katie Wilson has made her priorities clear. As Sean puts it, she's "not supportive of local business." Microsoft executives are openly saying you can no longer come to Seattle with a dream and make it go. When even the unionized, locally beloved organic sandwich chain can't survive the city's regulatory regime, something has gone badly wrong. Also on this episode: the statewide Washington millionaire's tax fight, NIC Global Manufacturing leaving Woodinville, and why Sean believes there are "a ton more closures" coming to Seattle restaurants. Subscribe to @reasonablenews and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode. CHAPTERS0:00 Homegrown sandwich chain shuts down…1:24 Seattle Restaurants Closing at…7:35 Mayor Wilson's Minimum Wage Hike…8:18 Little Reds Faces Seattle's Cost Squeeze10:25 Seattle Leadership Neglects Struggling…11:16 Little Beast Closes After Opening Year12:41 Washington Approves Statewide…13:56 NIC Global Leaves Woodinville for…14:44 Ballot Warning Clouds Millionaire Tax…17:20 Seattle Sonics NBA Bid Falls Short19:59 Millionaire Tax Drives Wealth From…22:33 More Seattle Restaurant Closures Coming #NFRP #Seattle #KatieWilson GO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/ 🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY 🌐 NOT on Discord? CHAT with us right on the site — free account, no app needed: https://ReasonableTV.com/community/ 👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople STAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL