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Seattle’s socialist mayor doesn’t plan on limiting her attacks to the rich

Washington's new income tax was designed to be unconstitutional and records show the plan goes far beyond millionaires

By Jason Rantz Fox News

Published May 8, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Seattle mayor says 'bye' to millionaires

CEO of Rastegar Capital Ari Rastegar criticizes Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's dismissive stance on millionaires relocating due to the upcoming millionaire tax.

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Seattle’s new socialist mayor, with the help of Washington state Democrats, are running the wealthy out of town and they’re laughing about it. Not because they’ll miss the tax revenue generated by the wealthy, but because the wealthy aren’t the only targets.

Earlier in May, Mayor Katie Wilson appeared at a Seattle University event and was asked whether she believed progressive taxes were an "easy" solution to the region's fiscal problems. The question comes on the heels of Washington Democrats passing the state’s first-ever income tax, naively described as merely a "millionaire’s tax.".

"I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown," she told the cheering crowd with a laugh. "And the ones that leave, like, bye."

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A sitting mayor of a major American city just waved goodbye to the taxpayers her city depends on, and the room thought it was funny.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's staff abruptly ended an interview with a local news reporter last week after he pressed her on rising gun violence and surveillance cameras in the city after a recent shooting. (David Ryder/Reuters)

Seattle's new mayor, a self-described democratic socialist, is already doing her level best to prove every critic right about what happens when you hand a major American city to the ideological left.

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