State of Monday: KATIE WILSON, ILLEGALS, RAPISTS AND MURDERERS
A shooting will shake you up.
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Welcome back to State of the Day, where I promise to strip the euphemism and misdirection off the day’s news. Here I’ll always give it to you straight up; no ice and no mixer.
Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if we carried off the left’s wishes to their foreseeable conclusion?
KATIE WILSON, ILLEGALS, RAPISTS AND MURDERERS
A visibly off-kilt Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson looked like she wanted to run.
Local reporter Chris Daniels first asked her about a shooting that had occurred. Days earlier, Wilson was at a community center announcing a raft of new “free” services the government planned to provide when shots rang out. She was quickly scuttled away from the event.
Daniels asked her how she was doing after the shooting. She looked shaky, but gave a standard reply on “gun violence.” He then began to ask her about surveillance cameras, and that’s when it looked like she might take flight. He said members of the community wanted them for safety purposes. Her staff intervened, cutting the interview short.
Wilson’s stance on surveillance cameras is interesting. I, for one, am not a fan of surveillance in any form. But Wilson isn’t particularly because she’s worried “federal immigration officials” might access and “abuse” the information – See: Arrest and deport illegals they identify on camera.
It was the second awkwardly viral moment for Wilson in the last couple weeks. The first was from an appearance she made at Seattle University.
“I think the claims that millionaires are gonna leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if, the ones that leave, like, byeee,” she said.
The quote prompted Seattle AI founder Jesse Proudman to speak out.
“It’s incredibly insulting. The reality is everyone I know who has the means to leave has either left or is in the process of leaving,” he said.
The data decidedly backs him up. Washington is currently ranked 50th of 50 states for “business survival rate,” according to anonymously-run, crowd-sourced anti-tax site LeftWashington.org.
So what’s left for cities like Seattle, Portland, LA and New York City? What happens if all their political wishes and desires play out?
The problem facing Marxists like Wilson (and Mamdani and so on) is the wealthy labor they want to tax can vamoose like a fart in a hurricane. The S&P Index used to be dominated by manufacturing, industrials, and real estate. Those are not industries that can just pick up and leave at the drop of a hat. Factories and homes take planning and construction and contracts and regulatory hoops.
But starting in the 80s and 90s, services overtook the previously dominant markets in the S&P. Healthcare, finance, tech, and communications exploded.
The people dominating those industries can live anywhere. They’d prefer to live in cities, but their kind of work doesn’t require it. They can up and move to Nashville. They can go to Texas or Florida. They can achieve the same exact outcome from thousands of miles away without all the regulations and taxes and, let’s be honest, petty crime, homelessness, vandalism, rape and murder.
And it’s not just the highly mobile service industries either. Retail is also taking flight. Pharmacies are shutting down across the street from courthouses! Walmart is leaving. Target is leaving. Seattle’s own Starbucks is leaving. Starbucks!
These are not businesses that are contracting nationwide. In fact, most are growing. They’re fleeing the results of bad urban policy.
It’s an acceleration of what Columbia finance professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh called the “economic doom loop.” He was referring specifically to urban flight following covid, but the results are the same. As wealth takes flight, it takes productive labor with it. As they all flee, property value plummets. The tax base – which Wilson needs for all her “free” stuff – shrinks.
What’s left?
In the urban hellscape I see, all that’s left is “highly educated” Marxist women, illegals, rapists, murderers and thieves. The “free” stuff is financed through municipal debt, which gets more and more insane. Imagine selling the entire city’s parking meters to a foreign country for a loan of just a billion dollars. (Chicago did something just like that, actually.)
Debt, Marxist women with student loans, the poor and vulnerable who literally can’t leave, and … violent antisocials.
That’s what’s left of once great American cities if Wilson gets what she wants.
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