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Soccerdad1995 wrote:I lived in Seattle for almost half my life. Left there in 2007 and have only been back on occasion to visit family. It really is a beautiful area with a lot of great people. But there is a pervasive liberal mindset there.

Seattle has a basic geography problem when it comes to their ability to impose taxes and raise the minimum wage, etc. The city is very small in area, and most of the people who work in the city limits actually live in other cities. So when they decide to tax guns, people just buy a gun in the city where they live. When Seattle decides to raise the minimum wage, people respond to higher restaurant prices by eating dinner at a restaurant that is in another city. It is the same for other goods and services.

Fortunately, the rest of the state tends to be more conservative, especially as you get to the eastern part. Seattle is kind of like Austin in that regard. Except that Seattle is the largest city in Washington state.

Seattle paid a total of $550,000 for the study aimed at connecting gunshot victims with social services in hopes of not seeing them in the emergency room again.