A few weeks ago while on travels out to the Pacific Northwest I talked to a waitress at Sea-Tac about this as taxes are going up and people leave for Wenatchee over the Cascades.
“.. the principle of Costanza, where efforts to fight a thing usually result in more of that thing ..”
Yup, unintended consequences of good intentions .. nothing like ruining a very nice environment with business-unfriendly government.
“.. You can do a lot of damage to a city if your City Hall is full of business-hating ideologues.
Seattle probably won’t end up like Detroit. It’ll end up like San Francisco, filled with billionaires and vagrants. Costanza again—efforts to fight inequality usually result in even more inequality.
The bodega owners, the cab drivers, the hot dog stand guys—those people work really hard for not a lot of money. They are the lifeblood of any large city. If you make things difficult for them, everyone’s quality of life goes down. And people leave…” – Zero Hedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-14/speechless-seattle