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‘This is very performative’: Jake and Spike debate if former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz left WA over ‘millionaire tax’ Right before the Washington State Legislature passed a tax on millionaires Tuesday, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced he was leaving Seattle for Miami.
“Grandkids are on the East Coast, his children and their families are on the East Coast,” Spike said on “A lot of old people retire to Florida, everybody gets it. But what are the odds that he puts this thing out right as they’re making this decision?” Jake responded.Jake believes Schultz’s move was motivated by the “millionaire’s tax.” Spike pushed back, saying the relocation wasn’t tax-related, but Schultz timed the announcement deliberately. “This is very performative,” Spike said. “Schultz was going to move to Florida. They’ve already moved, and it wasn’t when the income tax was proposed. That’s not when they decided to pick up and move. They were already going. But the release of it coincides with the new tax moving through the legislature. This was orchestrated.” “It must be related to it,” Jake countered. “Because he could have made this announcement three months from now. He could have made it a year and a half from now.” “He’s retiring. He’s not making an income,” Spike argued. “He’s living off his retirement benefits. Those are tax-exempt from a millionaire’s income tax.”“Not the millionaire’s tax that’s moving its way through the legislature,” Spike responded. Schultz wrote in his post that he was entering the “retirement phase” of his life and will be enjoying the sunshine in South Florida. But Jake questioned whether Schultz would open new businesses in the state. “I imagine there’s a possibility that he does start other ventures up in Florida. As a tax base, that would be a friendlier place to start a business than Washington,” Jake said.He dug further into Schultz’s post, where Schultz said he and his wife moved from New York to Seattle in 1979, and he took a job at Starbucks in 1982. Schultz wrote that he hopes Washington will “remain a place for business and entrepreneurship to thrive, creating essential opportunity for those in Seattle and the surrounding areas.” “I think it’s relevant because when you look at what Starbucks has recently done, we talked about them shutting down five more locations in Seattle,” Jake said. “We talked about Mayor Katie Wilson’s first act as mayor, which was going to a Starbucks protest and saying, ‘Don’t buy their coffee. I’m not going to buy their coffee, and neither should you.’ We talked about Starbucks expanding to Nashville. And now you have Howard Schultz on the same day they do the income tax, saying, ‘We’re going to Miami.'” “I understand that sentiment,” Spike replied. “And everybody we’ve talked to has shared that sentiment.” Spike said he talked to a business owner who said when he built his business in Seattle, the same taxation wasn’t there. “Now that they’re putting these in place, it’s literally like pulling the ladder up behind you,” he shared. “We were talking about people who said, ‘Well, I can deserve to pay more because …’ You made your money back when it was a business-friendly environment. It’s not anymore.” ‘This is very performative’: Jake and Spike debate if former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz left WA over ‘millionaire tax’ Harger: WA just voted to put permanent supportive housing in every neighborhood in the state. Your city has no say Harger: Olympia is passing an income tax you can’t vote on. Now a Democratic leader wants to dissolve businesses that fight back The Washington State legislature is expected to pass a millionaire income tax this week. The bill is written so it cannot go to a public vote through a referendum. Harger: Before Washington passes its first income tax, it’s worth asking what the last hundred billion actually bought In 1994, I paid $540 a month for a one-bedroom apartment off Greenwood Avenue in Seattle. It had a view of the Sound. Parking was included. People said rent was getting too expensive back then.To afford a home in Seattle, the numbers continue to reach historic levels. The income needed to afford a home in Seattle is $182,766.In the opening days of the war in 2003, my brother, Major Gregory Stone, 40, was killed at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait when another soldier rolled grenades into the tent.Chrystal Ortega's tireless dedication recently earned her the WSECU Community Champions Award and a $1,000 grant to further the mission.When Shawn Tibbitts opened Tibbitts FernHill, he was just trying to survive. The small Tacoma restaurant has since earned culinary awards and praise.Wilcox Family Farms is continuing its cherished holiday tradition of giving back by donating nearly one million eggs to food banks across the South Sound region this season.Matthew Ballantyne has transformed that early awareness into action, embodying the organization's mission:"No Kid Sleeps On The Floor In Our Town."Discover Kitsap County’s creative soul: Where Nordic charm meets gothic gardens and ancient traditions thrive Kitsap County is full of wonderfully weird, authentically artsy, and unexpectedly magical corners that make visitors become locals and locals never want to leave.‘This is very performative’: Jake and Spike debate if former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz left WA over ‘millionaire tax’
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